Katie Miller- Instagrammish
Behind the Scenes of Editing
I've always been into editing my pictures on social media platforms such as Instagram and VSCO. It's become one of those things that I do whenever I am bored or just for the fun of it. However, with these apps all you have to do is give it a single click and a filter will be applied to your picture. It's never occurred to me what goes behind the scenes when it comes to creating a filter. A conflict came when I began to create a filter; I wasn't sure how it was going to make each of the three images look like. As I began creating the filter on the first picture I was applying different adjustments that enhanced that single picture, but I was worried that it wasn't going to give the same effect to both of the other pictures. This assignment was extremely exciting for me because editing pictures is something I have always been extremely interested in, but it also gave me an appreciation for how easy it is to apply a filter to an image within two seconds.
How I Created My Filter
When I opened Photoshop, I went in with an idea in mind as to how I wanted my images to appear. I wanted the images to be a little cooler in tone, but still enhance the colors that were in the image. I achieved this by going into the Brightness/Contrast option. I brought the brightness to 23 to make the image appear more brighter and not too dark. Although I didn't want to wash out any shadows in the image so I brought the contrast to 10 so it gave off a crisp appearance. I then wanted to play with the colors in my image so I went into the Vibrance/Saturation adjustment and brought the vibrance to -28 to make my image have a cooler tint. I didn't want the image to lose its colors so I brought the saturation up to 33 to enhance the bright colors and bring them back into the image, but still achieving the bluish tint. To go into more detail with the colors, I went into the Hue and brought it to -21 to bring some reds/pinks into the picture while enhancing the blue in the images. Lastly, to pull the image together I went into the Photofilter adjustment and chose "underwater" to make the image really tie together. I didn't like how it looked by default so I brought the density to 16% and preserved the luminosity on the image.
Before After
I've always been into editing my pictures on social media platforms such as Instagram and VSCO. It's become one of those things that I do whenever I am bored or just for the fun of it. However, with these apps all you have to do is give it a single click and a filter will be applied to your picture. It's never occurred to me what goes behind the scenes when it comes to creating a filter. A conflict came when I began to create a filter; I wasn't sure how it was going to make each of the three images look like. As I began creating the filter on the first picture I was applying different adjustments that enhanced that single picture, but I was worried that it wasn't going to give the same effect to both of the other pictures. This assignment was extremely exciting for me because editing pictures is something I have always been extremely interested in, but it also gave me an appreciation for how easy it is to apply a filter to an image within two seconds.
How I Created My Filter
When I opened Photoshop, I went in with an idea in mind as to how I wanted my images to appear. I wanted the images to be a little cooler in tone, but still enhance the colors that were in the image. I achieved this by going into the Brightness/Contrast option. I brought the brightness to 23 to make the image appear more brighter and not too dark. Although I didn't want to wash out any shadows in the image so I brought the contrast to 10 so it gave off a crisp appearance. I then wanted to play with the colors in my image so I went into the Vibrance/Saturation adjustment and brought the vibrance to -28 to make my image have a cooler tint. I didn't want the image to lose its colors so I brought the saturation up to 33 to enhance the bright colors and bring them back into the image, but still achieving the bluish tint. To go into more detail with the colors, I went into the Hue and brought it to -21 to bring some reds/pinks into the picture while enhancing the blue in the images. Lastly, to pull the image together I went into the Photofilter adjustment and chose "underwater" to make the image really tie together. I didn't like how it looked by default so I brought the density to 16% and preserved the luminosity on the image.
Before After
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