Editing Final Architecture Photo 1

When it first came to editing the photos i had planned to use the university computers, as my laptop broke a number of weeks ago. But when i plugged my camera into the uni macs, it would not appear anywhere and i was unable to pull any of my .raw images off of my camera. This worried me greatly as i didnt not have a backup computers to use. I had to use a friends laptop who had canon editing software, rip the photos off of the camera and transfer them to a usb that the uni computers would recognise. Then i was finally able to edit my photos. To edit the photos i used Adobe Photoshop, a program i have always felt comfortable using. The first image i approached was number 1 in my Architecture set. As this was a .raw image i was able to play about with the levels in the raw menu. There wasnt much i had to change although i was slightly unhappy with how the sky had come out. To prepare for this, on the shoot i took photos of the sky to compensate if my final images lack impact in this area. To change the sky in my photos i selected the old sky and removed it to leave a blank white space.

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Once this was done i went around the edges to neaten it up. I then opened my new sky up in the raw menu, changed the settings so that the colours and levels would match the final photo better, and then pasted it into a layer below my building image.

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Initially i was very happy with how the photo looked, but i could slightly tell that the sky was not the same image as the building. To solve this i slightly blurred and burnt the edges of the building to help blend in to the sky. I am very happy with the outcome of the image!

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