There are many different ways to remove something from your photo when you are working in lightroom. There’s the healing tool and the spot removing tool. Along with that, you have the option of working in heal mode and clone mode. Now, it is going to depend on what you want to take out of your image in order to know which one is going to work the best.

Typically, I like using heal mode. I believe that this option is easier because it will adjust the area so that it will blend in. When using the clone mode, you are just taking something from another part of your image and copying it.

To start, go to develop mode and click on the spot removal tool. If you are removing something small, like sensor dust, then you can keep the removal tool small. But, you can resize it depending on how large you need it to be. Next, you are going to want to click and drag and cover the area that you want to eliminate. You selection will be marked, along with an area that Lightroom is going to steal from in order to replace what you are taking out.

If you need to change the selected area, you can simply click and drag until you have found something that will work better for you. Removing objects from photos is actually a lot simpler than most people think, and if you are using the heal mode, it should automatically blend everything for you. Spot removal really comes in handy when there are power lines in your image. I use it all the time, and I hope that explaining this makes things a little bit easier for someone!

Be sure to stop back again tomorrow for another blog post! Feel free to share your thoughts with me, and to share my thoughts with the world!

Cropping is a very important technique when editing photos. However, a lot of the times, when you crop something, and the crop is done incorrectly, the image is ruined. Luckily, there is a way to crop without ruining an image. This way, if you make a mistake, you can easily readjust.

In Photostop, you are first going to want to create a new layer, place it on the top, and then fill it with black. Then switch to full screen mode. Once you have done this, you will need to bring up the layers panel by pressing F7.

Click on the eyeball icon you see on the layer that you just made black in order to make this layer invisible. Next you are going to need to select the marquee tool and draw a rectangle where you want the crop to be.

Add a layer mask to the layer that you made black and then invert it. Once you have done that, you will need to click the anchor icon that shows up between the layer and the layer mask. Next, simply press and release “V” key and click and drag to move your marquee around to adjust your crop.

Remember, if you plan on printing your image, change the black to white. The white won’t get printed but the black will.

Hello and welcome to my first “official” blog post! In case you didn’t know, I am currently doing an internship with the Johnstown Tomahawks hockey team here in Johnstown. The internship is marketing and public relations based, so I have been learning a lot of things that I didn’t know before due to my production background. While I have been familiar with Photoshop, I do not know how to do everything when it comes to making flier and other marketing materials. I am more familiar with Lightroom, so I am learning new things to become more familiar with Photostop every day.

Now, I know that many people already know how to do this, but on the off chance that someone does not (like me this morning) I want to explain a quick and easy way to make part of a photo black and white, and part of it color. I have been working on designing ticket voucher booklets to be used throughout the year as a flexible season ticket alternative. A few weeks ago, I designed the book and tickets and my supervisors have been reviewing it and decided that they wanted a different ticket design for all 10 of the tickets that would be in the booklet.

I was working on a design today that looked very good in color. However, I noticed that it would look a lot better if the people in the photo were the man subject, rather than all of the people in the stadium around them. So, I decided to make the background black and white and to leave them in color. The only issue was that I didn’t know how to do this in an easy way.

So, after some research, I found a very simple solution. The first step, is to open the photo in photoshop. Now, when you open new picture, a lot of times the background layer is locked. Make sure that you have that unlocked and that it says ‘layer 0’. Next, you are going to want to right click and select duplicate layer. Once that is done, select the new layer, ‘layer 0 copy’ and then go to where it says image on the top left corner of the screen (the menu bar). From there, you are going to choose adjustments and then select black and white. A thing will then pop up that will have you adjust those colors individually if you want. However, if you just click on okay, it will convert the photo to black and white. The next step is to take the eraser tool, and simply erase the spots that you want to show up in color. Because you have the colored layer underneath, that is was is going to show through.

Finally, save your picture as a JPEG, or whatever file type you prefer, and you should have a black and white picture with some color peaking through.

Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Rachel and I just wanted to use this post as a short introduction. Not only is this going to be a site for blogging, but it is going to list my resume and have my portfolio as well.

Keep a look out for posts that will be coming in the next weeks!