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In the content of the previous few days, I shared the content of shooting introduction with you. If the novice learns photography without a clue, you can start from the angles of "clear photo,""normal exposure" and "horizontal and vertical" to make up for the technical deficiencies.

How to start photography? These ideas help you sort out the context.

Post-photography retouching is similar to shooting. If you don't know where to start, you can practice according to certain "standards" and exercise your skills.

Today, I will briefly share with you a few introductory techniques for post-photo retouching:

1. Later software recommendations (1) mobile phone software if you use the mobile phone for later retouching, mobile phone album comes with editing function in the early stage is very practical, take iPhone as an example, album not only for exposure, shadow, highlights and other light and shadow editing, but also support simple color adjustment, comes with filters are also quite feeling, with the basic functions of mobile phone album for entry is still very good;

If you are pursuing more professional functions, you can use Lightroom and Snapseed, which have complete functions and simple operation pages, which are suitable for mobile phone operation.

(2) Computer software computer software recommended Lightroom and Photoshop, the former is more suitable for batch processing, more refined; the latter is more powerful, suitable for creative design operations.

2. Specific operations for later revision (1) Simple but easily overlooked operations In the later revision, there are several simple and practical operations that are easily overlooked:

The first is "lens correction." There is still a certain difference between lens and human eye. Many photos taken by lens will have "distortion," especially wide-angle lens. There will be certain distortion effect at the edge of the finished photo. Although these effects may not be obvious, they also affect the appearance.

We can find the option of "lens correction" in the retouching software, find our corresponding lens model, and then the software will repair the distortion itself, which is still very convenient.

This step can be placed in the first step of the picture revision operation, that is, after importing photos, the first time can be compared with the "lens correction" work.

Then there's Sharpen, which can make photos sharper to some extent, look clearer, and is also very practical, and it doesn't take a lot of time, so why not? Sharpening can be placed as the last step before exporting.

(2) Light and shadow adjustment Generally speaking, when we repair the picture, we can edit the light and shadow part of the photo first, and then adjust the color part, because when the photo is displayed in the normal exposure form, we can better clarify the color editing idea.

At the beginning, we can use "restore normal exposure" as the standard for light and shadow adjustment, that is, restore the photo to the real state we see with the naked eye, without overexposure, large area dead black and so on.

We can mainly adjust these functions:

Exposure: It can be simply understood as controlling the overall brightness of the photo, pulling left is to reduce exposure, pulling right to increase exposure;

Second, shadow: control the dark part of the picture, pull the dark part to the left will be darker, pull it to the right will be brighter, too bright may appear noise, too low may lead to dark dead black without details;

Third, highlights: contrary to the shadow, control the bright part, pull the bright part to the left to darken, pull the bright part to the right to be brighter, excessively brightening will lead to obvious overexposure of the bright part, excessively lowering will make the bright part appear unreal;

Fourth, contrast: control the contrast between light and dark of the picture, improve the contrast, the bright part will be brighter, the dark part will be darker, on the contrary, the bright part will be darker, and the dark part will be brighter, and all will be closer to the middle;

White and black color levels: These two control the brighter and darker parts of the picture respectively, that is to say, when we adjust the highlights and shadows, it may affect the middle tone part; when adjusting the white and black levels, the impact is very limited and will not have too much impact on the middle tone.

We in the late beginner, able to skillfully clear these functions, you can use them to carry out simple light and shadow restoration of photos is very good.

(3) Photo cropping Why put cropping here, because after the photo is restored, we can more accurately determine the overall situation of the photo, and then crop it.

Cropping is a kind of "secondary composition," and we can follow two principles when cropping:

One is "horizontal and vertical." If it is not for special effects, the photos of "horizontal and vertical" will look more comfortable. In addition, this is also the process of making up for the mistakes in the early stage.

The second is to "remove irrelevant elements." Elements that have nothing to do with the overall effect of the photo and affect the appearance can be removed in the later cropping process.

(4) Color editing in the later stage is a complicated process. Everyone's style, preference and understanding are different, and there is no fixed standard. Therefore, here we mainly introduce a "restoration" idea.

Because of the influence of light, white balance, etc., the color of the photos we shot may differ from the actual color, mainly blue, purple or yellow, etc. At this time, we had better restore the color first and then edit it.

There is a very useful tool for this step-the pipette tool.

When we use this tool to aim at a certain point in the photo, we will use this point as the reference standard for the whole photo. If we select the medium gray or neutral color in the photo as the judgment point, then the photo color will be restored to a normal state, and then the specific color can be adjusted.

If you are confused in the late stage of photography, you can start with these basic operations.

This article comes from Weixin Official Accounts: Play Point Photography (ID: wakexiao), Author: AGER

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