Basic Photo Editing

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This is a cool tutorial on creating a rain effect for your images.

The first thing you need to do is to open your image. Go to the Layers palette and duplicate the image so you won�t have to work on the original. Go to the menu bar and click Image. Go to Adjustments then Curves and adjust the settings. Put Input: 150 and Output: 60.

Now add another layer. And set the background to White. Go to the menu bar and then Filter. Choose Noise and Add noise. Click on Gaussian and monochromatic. Set the amount to 110.

Next, go back to the menu bar and click on Filter. Choose Blur then Motion blur. Set the angle to -65 and distance to 40.

Go to menu bar. Click on Image then Adjustments then Levels. Make sure that the Channel is set to RGB. Set the Input levels to 5 _ 0.25 _ 255 and Output levels to 0 _ 255 then Ok.

Go back to the Layers palette and change Mode to Screen.

And voila!

写真編集におけるフィルタ使用については初の投稿なので、まずはイントロから始めたいと思う。フィルタ(イメージ・エディタでは通常、メニューバーにある)は、アーティスティックかつクリエイティブな機能で、特定の効果を得るために、画像の一部または全体に適応ができる。写真の質感も変更可能。紙に刷られたような効果を得ることができる。画像を変形させることも可能だ。画像編集の初心者であるかどうかは、重要ではない。イメージ・エディタのフィルタ・ツールを研究してみてほしい、クリエイティビティを解放する無限の方法が発見できるだろう。

Since this will be my first post on using filters for photo editing, I figured I�ll just give an intro about it first. Filters (usually found in the menu bar of your favorite photo editor) are artistic and creative applications that can be utilized on certain or all parts of an image to achieve certain effects. It can change the texture of an image. It can make an image appear as if rendered on paper. It can distort an image. It doesn�t matter whether you�re a beginner in image editing. My advice is to explore the filter tools of your image editor and you�ll find endless ways of unleashing your creativity.