Charlotte Bracken edited an original light paint photography image in Photoshop. In step 1, she adjusted the color balance to create a pink effect and brighten the light paint. In step 2, she increased the hue and saturation to make the image bolder and brighter. In step 3, she lowered the brightness and increased the contrast slightly to make the image less harsh. For the final image, she copied the selected light area to a new layer, flipped it, and placed it over the original at 50% opacity to blend the colors.

1. UNIT 57: LIGHT PAINT
PHOTOGRAPHY
ORIGINAL IMAGES
AND EDITED IMAGES
By Charlotte Bracken

2. Original Image
This is the original
image which shows the
light paint clear and
viewable. I will be
editing this image to
create a whole new
image using
Photoshop.

3. To start of the edit I
went on to Image,
Adjustments and
then Colour
Balance. As you
can see by the print
screen of what I did,
I have moved all
three bars either
higher or lower and
this has created a
more pink effect
over the picture and
mad the ‘light paint’
go brighter.
Step 1

4. Step 2
In ‘step 2’ I did the
same as the first step I
did by going into
Image and then
Adjustments again, but
instead of going onto
Colour Balance, I
clicked on
Hue/Saturation. By
moving the Hue and
Saturation further up, I
have created a more
bold and brighter
image which stands
out more. Keeping the
Lightness the same
has enable to keep
this bright, bold

5. Step 3
For step 3, looking at the image, I thought personally it was too bright so I then
when to Image, Adjustments and went on Brightness/Contrast. By moving the
Contrast up a little and the Brightness down, I have still kept this bold, bright image
which didn’t seem to hard on the eyes.

6. Step 4
To create this final image, to
something I enjoy looking at
and think is rather different, I
used the Rectangular
Marquee Tool to select the
whole image and copied and
pasted to a new layer. On the
new layer on the image, I
then again used the
Rectangular Marquee Tool to
select half of the image which
had the most going on with
the lights to create the Light
Paint. I then by going to
Image and then Crop which I
then flipped and placed on
top of the first layer. Using the
opacity, I made it go to 50%
to give a nice blending effect.

7. Final Image
This is the final
image which has
been edited from the
original. I think it
looks colourful even
though the
brightness and
contrast isn’t up
completely.

8. Original Image

9. Step 1
For the first thing I did
to edit the image was
to go to brightness
and contrast and see
if I could make it a
little lighter and see if
I could make the
colours a bit more
vibrant to stand out as
I thought it might look
better.

10. Step 2
I then went on the
Hue and Saturation to
change the colours of
the lights which I have
been focusing on with
the brightness.

11. Step 3
For step 3, looking at
the image, I wanted to
make the light paint
colours to stand out
more so I went to,
Image, Adjustments
and went on
Brightness/Contrast. By
moving the Contrast up
a little and the
Brightness down, I
have made the colours
vibrant.

12. Step 4
For step 4, I have
changed the Exposure,
Gamma Correction but
kept the Offset the
same to make the
colours stand out more
and have to tried to
make the background
that little bit darker and
faint to help the colours
stand out more.

13. Step 5
For step 5, I cropped
the image so it was
just the shadow and
the light paint in the
middle of the image
which would draw the
eyes to it and able to
see a vibrant colours
image.

14. Step 6
For step 6, I just
added a simple Lens
Correction to help
darken the edges
around the image.

15. Final Image