Day 2: Educate

Educate us on something you know a lot about or something that are good at.

Here is the thing – I don’t consider myself to be really good at anything, and I don’t know much about anything in particular. So this is going to be a post about how I Photoshop my photos to make them blog ready. Before we start - you should know that I use the program called Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0, not regular Photoshop

• Open the photo that you want to edit

• Adjust the view to "actual pixels" {it will be big but don't worry}

• Adjust the image size

• Horizontal pictures are 500 pixels wide and vertical are 350 pixels wide

• Make sure that the constrain proportions box is checked! 

        

• Adjust the lighting on the picture - specifically the brightness

• Adjust the color on the picture - specifically the hue/saturation

 

Some other things I do {depending on if the picture needs a little extra help} 

Adjust color curves {adjust sliders until your picture looks the way you like}

• Adjust for skin color {I find this is best in low light}

• Save the photo for the web

• Upload to photobucket

• Grab the html code from Photobucket

• Paste the photo into the HTML section of blogger

• make sure to add <br /><div><center> and </center></div><br /> around the photo {the code should look like this: <br /><div><center><photo code></center></div><br /> }

And now your photos are ready to be blogged!


A few notes to add:

• if you don't want to mess with the code of your blog, just simply add the image as you usually would and make sure it is the original size
• if you use Photobucket your photos will not always show up on computers with content blockers {like at offices}