Digital Clean-Up

Too blurry?  Need to crop?  How about enhancing?

After Steve Elliott helped us to become reacquainted with the need to be very, very careful how 

Photoshop tools are used and remaining ethical journalists, we picked a path to play with the program itself.

Hilari Anderson uses the editing tools to improve a warthog photo.

Educators seeking to enhance Photoshop skills and greater challenges followed Dave Siebert from Arizona Republic/AZ Central.com into a computer lab. While some of the tips and tricks shared were familiar, I found myself excited to regain insights lost under layers of learning other skills as well as becoming introduced to new tools misunderstood.

Siebert encouraged us to play with our new tool toys, leveling and dodging as pictures needed. From a wondrous warthog to a yawning feline the six photos we processed featured zoo life. They are stunning photographs even before we began the clean-up process.  It really helped to have Siebert explain why and how to edit.

Discovering RAW formatting, clean-up methods and adding description information (cutlines) within Photoshop are all highlights of the afternoon session.