I'm fairly good at Photoshop. If you tell me to change something, I can do it. You need to tell me what to do though. How can I get better at looking at a photo and realizing what I need to do to make it look better?
You don't, if you need ps, just delete the shit and go to take a normal picture
>>2701404
I'm editing photos a friend took right now. She's doesn't consider herself a photographer, but she would like her photos to look better. I'll post the original and how I edited it. Hopefully you can give me feedback.
Original
>>2701407
I really feel like I have no idea what I'm doing. I did auto color, then changed the contrast, gamma correction, selected the clouds, and history brushed to the original clouds.
Original
>>2701409
This one I didn't use any automatic editing techniques. Instead choosing hue, saturation, vibrance, etc on my own. I feel like I just make a shitty high contrast photo. I know good photography eliminates necessary editing, but I want to be good at editing.
>>2701408
The original picture was a bit dull but this is too far the other way and looks garish. Less is more.
>>2701408
>I'm fairly good at Photoshop
>I really feel like I have no idea what I'm doing
So which one is it? I can tell you now that you are not good at photoshop, but yes it's clear that you don't know what you're doing. These edits are fucking horrible...
>>2701413
I know where the tools are, what they do, and how to use them.
Think of it as someone who knows how to play an instrument, but doesn't know how to compose, or an athlete who doesn't know how to coach.
I'm not looking for instructions on how to use photoshop, I'm looking for direction on how I should achieve a good desired result.
>>2701411
How would you suggest developing that taste or vision necessary to know when my editing has gone too far?
>>2701414
I know it's cool to be very harsh on /p/, and I'm aware the post editing sucks. I came from image manipulation for fun to something more serious. I'd appreciate a little more feedback that could help me develop myself. Otherwise I'm just gonna keep sucking. /p/ usually seems like the least helpful board.
>>2701398
could you please help decipher the writing here?
>>2701370
>>2701424
You're more like someone who thinks you know how to play an instrument, because you know where the toot toot buttons are.
>>2701428
For starters, consider everything you would do, and only do 10% of that.
Then, read books, look at photos of other people, and take more photos yourself.
Look at stuff, and think about why you want to photograph it. Is it the lighting, composition, etc.
Develop a picture in your head, how you want it to look. Then, set your camera to get close to that look. After that, check it out on your PC and see what's still missing. Fix that in post.
>>2701407
Chapultepec, been there, took the same photo, sadly
I made a dead chick kawaii in under 10 minutes.
>Your move, OP.
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Knowing the use of multiple functions of photoshop doesn't make you good at photoshop, it just means you have technical knowledge. Like you said, you know how to use the instrument but don't have a fucking clue what you're doing, hence you're shit.
But none of that matters because being good at something comes from having a range or bredth of knowledge rather than just depth, and you have no idea on that either.
Going from your examples you just played around until you had something you thought looked more dramatic when in reality it just looked like a badly photoshopped photo, which is exactly what it was.
The best thing you can do is buy a cheap camera and learn how to take good photos from an artistic point of view, or learn to paint. Those will teach you artistic, compositional and technical rules and guides which you can use to achieve something good in photoshop instead of the unskilled mess you're doing now.
If you want a shitty miss-the-point answer, then find the best thing about the photo and highlight it. In the building it's the contrast of the stones, and the feeling of being inside looking out. To achieve those you might put more tone and contrast in the sky so it looks more overbearing and you feel safer looking out, you might remove saturation or go monochrome with the building tones, etc. Don't just adjust sliders and see what happens.
For the second pic, the best feature is the lighting and the worst is the lack of contrast. You ignored both of these and played with the colours again.
tl;dr stop being an idiot in photoshop might help
>black and white it
>its good
Easy, op.
>>2703847
Pretty kek. Should probably touch up her closed eye to make it look not as odd. Can you give her duck lips too?
Hey would you please be so nice to replace the grey in the background and in the letters to black, i'm really bad at photoshop but i'm just gonna ask and try here.
>>2701398
does your name start with K
>>2703994
kinda late, but whatev
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u can do whatever u want to Punchy, lets see wat u got
>>2705212
if u need more....
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>>2703847
what the fuck is that original pic from?
