Assignment 211 Task 1a

The above images shows my working through in photoshop of making 4 photo's into 1 image.

I started by opening the photo I wanted, a new layer, I then applied a grid to the new layer, this would be used to help get all the photo's the same size and in the same position.

I then moved the 1st photo over, Selected Edit>Transform>Scale, then scaled the photo down to the size that I wanted, this was then positioned in the top left corner. 

I then repeated the above process for another 3 images, but changing the position of the photo's, going top right, bottom left, bottom right. 

Once all photo's were on, I adjusted the position and scale to get the borders equal all the way round, and removed the grid. 

The below images show my working through in Lightroom, from the raw image off my camera, to the finished photo at the top of this post.

The 1st thing I did was to open the image, (above) I then decided to crop the image down slightly, (Below) this giving the shot a use of the rule of two thirds.

After the crop, I then needed to remove any bits of dust/imperfections, which there were a few and can be seen in the image below. The white circles on the image below are the repaired areas.

The next thing I did was to play with the adjustments, I made the Blacks slightly deeper they went from 0 to +7, the Contrast went from 0 to +30, lastly the Vibrance and Saturation both went from 0 to +5.

The last adjustment I made, was to add a very slight Vignette which went from 0 to -15.

Once happy with all my adjustments I added a Copyright Watermark as the images will end up going on my personal website as well as on this blog.

There is a tool in Lightroom that allows you to create and save multiple Watermarks. Pretty much every detail of the watermark can be altered, from the Style/Size/Colour of the font, the position and orientation of the watermark, be it Horizontal or Vertical, Even the inset from the edges and the opacity can be changed.

The way to apply a watermark in Lightroom has to be done when exporting the image out of the program, at the same time when exporting you can change the format of the image, choose the location where it will be saved, the size of the photo etc.

for this one I kept the size and the dpi original, choose the location, changed the format to JPEG, and added a light Grey watermark to the bottom right of the image.

The result is the 1st photo in the top left of this post.