Photo editing 2

When editing the photos I used a new document at A5 size so that they would all be the same size for the Final Cut Pro canvas. I used a DPI of 72 as the files were to be used for on screen display. I used rulers to indicate the thirds, to help with the composition of the images and used the Transform tool in photoshop to resize and place the photos on the Photoshop canvas creating a composition that I was happy with for my photo montage.

Photo editing

Some of the photo's for my digital story are too bright as they were taken on a sunny day and my story is set on a day where it had been raining. I have edited these photo's to look more like a dull day.

Original photo:

I duplicated the background layer and turned off the visibility on the new layer.

I opened up the hue saturation tool and lowered both the saturation and the brightness.

I then turned on the visibility on the duplicate layer and changed the blending mode to pin light to allow the layers to blend together and crate a dull looking photo as if it was overcast.

As I had to do this to a few photos I recorded it as an action and used batch processing to repeat the action on several pictures quickly.

This makes the photo's look more realistic for a day where it has been raining and will communicate this in my film better.

I have also decided to edit all of my photographs in this way to stylise the film and give a feeling of continuation throughout it.