Sunday, June 3, 2012
Week 4: Day 3
This week we were introduced to Rotate Arbitrary, Curves (adding contrast), Sharpening, Masks, and Forced Depths of Field. I found the most useful one to be sharpening. Some of my photos from this week were a little unclear, but after using the sharpening tool the pictures improved greatly.
Before using the sharpen method, this picture had very soft edges that made it appear to be somewhat blurry. After using the sharpen setting I feel that it has improved the quality of the picture. I had to adjust the sharpness many times to ensure that I was improving the appearance of the image and not ruining it. When photographing the animals (while they are their cages, so especially the cats) it is difficult to get the correct amount of lighting and I have notice the poor lighting makes the images appear more 'soft'. I hope to continue to find value in this technique!
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Good, please note that the sharpening technique (as a rule of thumb) should only be used for Internet images. We don't want to sharpen our master images. Sharpening sharpens the individual pixels so that the image looks clearer, but the focus of the image really hasn't changed. This sharpening of the pixels degrades our image, so if we were to print it, it would not look as good. I agree with you that sharpening the image above really helps to draw our focus to the animal and the catch lights in his eyes!
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