Floating Food

Photography Section

Step 1:

• Set Camera to Manual (M)
• Set Aperture to f/5.6
• Change your shutter speed until you have correct exposure
  • If the shutter is to slow, add more light to your setup

Step 2:

• Take the photo at eye level
• Do NOT take photo from above

Step 3:

• Pick one item from each station to photograph
  • Cookies  or  Mints

• • Ornaments  or  Gifts

• • Bread  or  Waffle

• • Bread  or  Waffle

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Photoshop Section Cropping and Adjustments

Step 1:

• Using the Crop tool
  • Cut off any extra  area around the photo that does not belong

Step 2:

• Open photo in ACR (camera raw)
• You want a CLEAN edit
  • Adjust the brightness/contrast/shadows/highlights/temerture/tint
    • Photo should NOT be
      • to dark or to light
      • to yellow or to blue
• Be sure to slightly increase the
  • Texture and Clarity

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Photoshop Section Removing Tooth Picks

Step 1:

• Pick the Lasso Tool
  • Draw around the object you want to remove

Step 2:

• Click Backspace key
  • Contents:  Content-Aware
    • Mode:  Normal
      • Opacity 100%
  • Click OK

Step 3:

• Go to
  • Select
    • Deselect
• Your object will be gone

Step 4:

• If you have areas that did not remove you will need to use the Clone Stamp tool to fix it

Step 5:

• Click the Clone Stamp tool

Step 6:

• You want to select an area next to the part you want to cover
  • I will be selecting the black area to cover part of the tooth pick
• Click the Alt key and the Mouse at the same time
  • This will select that area

Step 7:

• Click your mouse over the area you want covered

Step 8:

• Continue removing the tooth picks until they are all gone
• Finish by editing in ACR