More Photoshop

Not all Photoshop edits are so subtle... in this recent example i was asked to create some custom images to replace the original HSE pictures for a set of hard hitting actual work place related posters, the theme, "Simple mistakes shatter lives..."


This image was created from 2 originals, the actor on the ground was actually standing in another picture. http://www.nyphotographic.co.uk/blog/hse_poster.jpg

This image was created from 4 originals. http://www.nyphotographic.co.uk/blog/hse_poster3.jpg

Photoshop has not only enabled me to cut out, move and rotate the actors it has also enabled me to add shadow so in the first he now looks as thow he was actually on the ground and the second the broken parts look as if the have rotated.

The only real limitation to the editing possibilities in Photoshop is your imagination.

Photo editing in Photoshop

I get asked all the time if I edit photo's with photoshop, the answer on some is yes, but photoshop can do more than just remove the odd skin blemish or take out things like litter.

When it comes to enhancing an image Photoshop is simply amazing... as a photographer it enables me to enhance an image to enable others to see as i do, it can also recover images and in some cases do both!
Sometimes modern camera's have difficulties exposing correctly for certain situaltions, in this example (a friend asked it i could recover this image that was taken by them whilst on holiday) below the original image is very underexposed (dark) due to the bright sky.

http://www.nyphotographic.co.uk/blog/photoshop_before.jpg

A little photoshop later and the image is trasformed. The second dog has been removed, the forground been darkened, the subject has been lightened, the sky has been enhanced, the image has been cropped to improve its framing and finally the image has been converted to black and white with extra grain added and contrast boosted.
http://www.nyphotographic.co.uk/blog/photoshop_after.jpg

5 minutes in photoshop.