Processing Your Spring Break Assignment - Due May 4th

Today you will begin to develop your spring break images using Adobe Photoshop. Please read the entire post and the links within this post. You may find the time to do this while you are waiting to scan or shortly after you have scanned your negatives.

You will be scanning four negatives from your spring break assignment and four negatives from your grandparent portrait assignment.

When you scan your negatives be sure you set up your scanning options as follows:
1. Scan all of your negatives with a resolution of 4000dpi.
2. Select Neg (color) in the drop down menu.
3. Select Calibrated RGB in the drop down menu.


When you go to save your image you must save the file as a JPEG. If you keep the image at its default setting (TIFF) you will eventually run out of space on your hard drive. This TIFF file contains a lot of information.

I showed you one method used to convert your image to black and white. There are so many other methods of completing the same task. You might find some of these methods a little easier and more convenient to use. Please read this article to learn more.

Using one of the methods convert all of your images to black and white. Be sure you have good contrast. You need to convert these images because you scanned all of your images using RGB; therefore, the computer thinks they are color.

Next, I would like you to completely clean up your photographs. I don't want to see any scratches, hair or other marks that might the photo look like this. You may use the clone or patch tools to accomplish this task. Review this article to learn more about retouching a photograph.

Select two photographs from each assignment and prepare to print. You will put two 5x7 prints on one 8 1/2"x11" piece of paper.