Self Portraits with Photoshop

During class today, I explored Adobe Photoshop for the first time.  After manipulating some of my earlier photographs (one of the images of a volleyball from my earlier blog post), I cropped, enhanced, and manipulated a portrait of myself.

I began with this image:

This image is a little dark and I am not excited by the cinder block wall behind me, so my first step in editing was to adjust the exposure.  After adjusting the exposure the cinder block virtually vanished.  Next, to add color to my now white-washed face, I increased the contrast and sharpness of the photograph.  After these edits, I ended up with this:

Finally, I adjusted the color balance, increasing blue and red levels and cropped the photograph so my face was centered.

After, I put the image on my very own Visual Literacy business card.