Thursday, 10 September 2015

How my current photos were created


Creation of edited photos


To create my first photos, I connected to the Southend High School for Girls computer server on the iMac using a unique address which everyone can connect to. Then as everyone’s photos showed up in four group folders, I double clicked my group’s folder (named “Anna”) and found the images that I want. Regardless of the photo quality, I highlighted all of the photos taken and dragged them into Photos (since I used a new model of iMac, it wasn’t called “iPhoto” on the dashboard) to save them and take a look at them any time. The photos that I really wanted, though, were a portrait-style photo of (presumably) Anna in the background next to the school, and a landscape photo of other peers in the sports area near the field. For the first photo, I clicked on “Edit” at the top right hand corner; a respective section of options came up at the right-hand side, referring to the enhancement of the selected photo. One option was to adjust a pseudo-eraser and edit out unwanted objects in the photo. Other options were photo filters to enhance the portrait and colour enhancement. Nevertheless, I clicked on the Filters option and gave the photo a complete makeover of 1950’s black and white. Then I adjusted the colour settings a little bit to give it a proper retro-style look in order to satisfy my needs in terms of photo editing. By dragging the finished photo on to the desktop to save it there, I completed my job of attempting my first photo edit.

However, I moved on by taking the photo of my peers and performed the same editing scheme like what I had done on the portrait-style photo, only with a few changes in enhancement. I radically brightened the photo and digitally enhanced it to make it look as if it were high-definition. To finish, I dragged it on to the desktop and sent the photo and all other related photos to Dropbox (where I have an account there for cloud storage).

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