Question

2. Explain how you change colors and add adjustments to improve the contrast and color of your photo​

Answer 1

Answer: Overview of adjusting image color and tone

Two ways to adjust image tone and color are to use adjustment layers or to edit in Adobe Camera Raw. Both offer a wide range of control and flexibility, without permanently altering or damaging the original image information. The integrity of your original images is preserved. This nondestructive editing gives you the flexibility to make further changes, start over with a different editing approach, or undo the adjustments even after you've saved the edits.

With adjustment layers, you apply edits on a separate layer in the image file, leaving the original image (background layer) intact. The easiest way to access the adjustment layer tools is clicking an icon in the Adjustments panel. You can add more than one adjustment layer for more complex image editing. You can also use a mask to apply the adjustment to a specific part of the image.

Adjusting image color and tone with adjustment layers

In the Adjustments panel, click the tool icon for the adjustment you want to make:

For tonality and color, click Levels or Curves.  

For adjusting color, click Color Balance or Hue/Saturation.

For converting a color image to black and white, click Black & White.

In the Properties panel, adjust the adjustment layer tool settings.

Adjusting image color and tone in Camera Raw

Choose File > Open.

In the Open window, select one or more camera raw files, TIFFs, or JPEGs, and then choose Camera Raw from the Format menu.

Click Open.

You can set preferences to always open JPEGs and TIFFs in Camera Raw.

Enable editing of JPEGs and TIFFs in Camera Raw

Choose (Windows) Edit > Preferences > Camera Raw or (Mac OS) Photoshop > Preferences > Camera Raw.

In the JPEG and TIFF Handling section of the Camera Raw Preferences dialog box, do any of the following:

In the JPEG menu, choose Automatically Open All Supported JPEGs.

In the TIFF menu, choose Automatically Open All Supported TIFFs from the TIFF menu.

In addition to the two workflows described above, you can also use Smart Objects for editing layers nondestructively. See Linked Smart Objects for more information.