Floating Food

Floating Food

Photography Section

Step 1:

  • Set Camera to Manual (M)
  • Set Aperture to f/7
  • 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