Derrick Story at Macworld: Editing with iPhoto '08, Part Two
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Derrick Story - iPhoto '08
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Now if I wanted to retouch, we have a new retouch tool, so wait, it’s all the way down here. There it is right there. It’s actually gotten better from the old days. So sometimes when you retouch, maybe you just want to work on a certain area so I’m gonna hit the 1 key that brings me into 100% and let’s say I just wanted to retouch right here, maybe we’ll even go to 200%. There we go.
So I could go all the way down here, find the retouch, now in the old days we didn’t have a way to really determine how big of an area we were retouching. We just got a crosshairs and then iPhoto says I’ll take care of it and you go, “I know but what are you doing?” Don’t worry; I know what I’m doing. Well you know actually a lot of times it really didn’t know what it was doing so now with the new retouch tool, oh we have something where we can actually decide how big of an area we’re gonna retouch just by moving this little slider thingy-bob here. So let’s just say that we only wanna retouch the area that’s affected, like right here. So I just put it right over that and then all I have to do is just click. And look at that, it’s all gone. It’s very nice. And then when you're done, you can just click right here, and that closes the tool.
Now I can hit 0 and go back out. There is a keystroke command for retouch too. Anyone wanna guess what it is? What? No! What made you think the R would be retouch? It’s T. Of course, you knew that right? Its T is the retouch tool for reTouch. It’s like that, that’s all you have to say, reTouch so I’m gonna retouch this photo and if you wanna get rid of it, then you just click the X key right there.
No, the R is for Redeye. That’s why, that’s why. So if there hadn’t been two R’s I think we woulda been fine. We had it we woulda been fine. Speaking of redeye, so I’m gonna go ahead and apply this edit so I’m gonna hit the return key and brings me back. Let’s go to redeye. This is – oh I love this redeye shot here. This is really gruesome. Oh! I know, poor guy.
I mean I did it – I did this on a person whose actually, he’s actually a GQ model but you know I purposely wanted redeye so we did everything, we did all the bad techniques so I’d have a good redeye. So now look right here. I ‘m not in edit mode right? I don’t have my edit – that’s cause I just double clicked and I didn’t hold down the option key. So what I need to do is hold down the option key and double click; now I have my edit tools down here. So if I hit the R key, I get the redeye removal right here.
Again, you have two ways. You have the automatic way, which iPhoto has always had and all I have to do is just put it right here on their eye, click, iPhoto finds the area that needs to be retouched and does it and it does a really good job. In iPhoto ’08 you get an upgrade. You get manual mode where you actually get to set the size of the slider so this allows you to make redeye correction mistakes because I never quite get it right. I mean we’re gonna really make a mistake now but if you get it wrong on the diameter, oh wait, it still fixes it.
Okay so what this really means is it doesn’t make any difference for the most part. I would just leave it in automatic and I wouldn’t worry about making sure that it’s the right size. iPhoto’s really good at finding those changes. Now if I decided I didn’t want to apply the redeye, I could get out of edit mode just by hitting escape, we come back here, I’m gonna double click just to show it and our edits are not applied. So remember, return applies your edits; escape does not.
Okay, so there’s – that’s some fun stuff. Now what if you wanna see a before and after of your work? Well let’s show you this one here, this is a fun one. We’re gonna – I’m gonna go to full screen mode. The enhance button is pretty good. I like it and it’s particularly good on images like this that are low contrast and don’t have – you know it was kinda overcast, your subjects don’t have a lot of contrast. That is a perfect candidate for the enhance button. It’s right down here. It’s a one-click thing. Watch what happens when I click it. Brightens it right up, brings up the contrast, does a very nice job.
Now if I wanna see the before and after, does anyone know what the before and after key is? It used to be command, they wanna keep us on our toes, they changed it; it’s the shift key now. so you hold down the shift key and you can see the before and after. Not too bad. You go – you know what? That’s a better edit but I decided I don’t want it because I have two more of these demos to do so I’m gonna hit escape and we’ll get out of there.
So the – this down here – and then one more, I wanna show you the black and white. The black and white is so much fun. It’s actually one of the things I’m gonna be talking about today. We’ll take our bright here and I’ll do shift, command, option command, I’m sorry, option command F; well go here to full screen mode. I’m gonna hit the E key right? For effects, and this effects palate is pretty, pretty nice. So I can hit black and white right here, automatically converts my image to nice black and white.
Now if I hit the A key for the adjust palate, then I can even make some finer adjustments beyond that and play – this is like an up the contrast if I wanted, give it a little bit more punch. I could darken or lighten the exposure. You have highlights and shadows to play with here. And one of the things that I noticed, is that even the temperature slider, this is a secret. Well I mean it’s not a secret any more but it was a secret, that when you convert the black and white, bring up the adjust palate, my favorite adjustment; the one that seems to work the best is the temperature slider. It’s very subtle and it holds the tones better than a lot of the other adjustments right there.
So all you have to do is hit the E key to go to effects, click on your black and white, then bring up the A, hit the A key to bring up adjust, make your temperature slider and you’ve got a nice black and white photo and if you have a good photo printer, these things print up very nice, very nice. So then I just, now all I have to do is hit the A key again, hit the E key again, I don’t have to move the mouse over to try to hit the little X, I don’t have to do any of that sort of stuff. I’m not gonna apply these edits right now so I’ll hit the escape key and we come right –
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