Today we were learning how to use photoshop to edit the photos that we take so they can be to the highest level possible. We were taught how to resize our images to a certain size, 1920 pixels wide, whilst making sure it kept its aspect ratio. The picture i used was of a hockey game and found that it became a much clearer image once it was resized properly, showing how important it is for us to make sure we edit pictures correctly.
Next we had to find an image that was in portrait and crop it to landscape, without cutting out any major sections of the photo. This was in my opinion the most useful thing we have learnt because it means that just because you take a picture in portrait, it doesn’t mean you then can’t use that picture again if you need it to be landscape and vice versa. My picture was of a boy who was about to strike a football and although the picture looked different when changed, there was nothing missing from the original.
Next we had to use perspective crop to straighten an image that looked slanted due to the cameras position when it was taken. I struggled a bit with this at first but after some help, I found I was able to use the pictures edges to change a slanted train track to straight.
Finally, we then used these skills to go back to our image from the first week and edit it so that it was better.
Photographic Journalism 