Make the Sky More Blue with Photoshop

The blue and bright sky is a dream for every fan of photography, because the blue sky adds to the beauty and depth of images. But the sky is blue like this course more difficult to come by, especially if you take pictures of objects in the great city, and pale gray color is the sky every day.

Fortunately with Photoshop we can make the sky bluer. We will use the tool called Graduated Filters are available in Adobe Camera Raw (automatically installed along with your Photoshop installed). This tool was created to mimic the workings of Gradient Filters are usually installed in front of your lens.

Here are the steps:

  1. Open your photo in Adobe Camera Raw. If you have a photo with raw format you can simply open them in Adobe Camera Raw, if you have a photo to JPG / JPEG or TIFF follow these steps to open the file in Camera Raw.
  2. Activate the Graduated Filter tool, and press the G key on your keyboard so the photos have been open in Adobe Camera Raw, to enable the Graduated Filter tool.
  3. Press and hold down the Shift key while you click on the edge of the image and drag your mouse to the bottom (depending on the height of the sky).
  4. Set the parameters on the right. Play the parameters to the right until you get to taste the color of the sky.

Note: Grid gradient: the green pin is the top and red pin is the lower end.

  1. Exposures: if the lower, then it grew dark; saturation: the greater the stronger the color will be more; color: select color to the color of sky blue in color picker.
  2. So, the color of the sky in your photo would be more interesting. Just added: you can also use this trick to make another gradient, not just the color of the sky.

Tips on Shooting Face with Typical Characteristics

Sometimes we are asked to photograph the face of a friend or acquaintance who has a distinctive facial characteristics (in terms of less well, for example: a pug nose, chubby cheeks, big ears, etc.) – because no man is perfect.

We can try some shooting techniques specific to my friend still looks okay, shooting technique is aimed at reducing the “negative effects” of the characteristics that have been mentioned earlier.

The following tips:

  1. If your friend’s bald head, shoot from a low angle and if you use additional lighting, keep no source of light that bounces on his head.
  2. If the face has many wrinkles, use a light source direction from the front instead of sideways. Light coming from the side will clarify this wrinkle texture.
  3. If your friend’s big ears, arrange for them to pose only one ear that look and keep your ear that look is not to stand out.
  4. If your friend’s pug, shoot from the front and set it poses to face looking straight ahead.
  5. If your friend double chin, his pose set to look straight into the camera and keep your head slightly tilted forward so that the folds of the chin reduced.

Opening File JPEG / TIFF in Adobe Camera Raw

Although Adobe Camera Raw was originally designed to process images in RAW format, we can also use it to process JPEG or TIFF file formats. Taking advantage of Adobe Camera Raw to process images is the ease and speed. A control in Adobe Camera Raw is relatively simpler than in the main menu of Photoshop.

If you want to open an image with JPEG or TIFF in Adobe Camera Raw, here are the simple steps:

  1. On the main menu of Photoshop, for Windows: click File> Open As> browse and click on the file JPEG / TIFF are trying to view> Change Open As pop-up menu to Camera Raw> click Open For Mac: File> Open> click file JPEG / TIFF will be opened> Format to change the pop-up Camera Raw> click Open
  2. Photos are ready processed in Adobe Camera Raw