There is a reason why the expression “a picture is worth a thousand words” exists. And when it comes to creating your brand, photos are an excellent approach to conveying your message to your audience. This article examines some easy ways to edit and enhance images so that you can present your best self. Each time and get it done by the Elementenvato site.
Cropping: Improve concentration and composition
Cropping is the easiest way to entirely modify a photograph. Cropping can eliminate unneeded or distracting elements, enhance composition, or help emphasise the subject.
A word of caution: if you intend to undertake substantial cropping, begin with the largest image possible. Because the more you crop, the less quality and resolution you retain.
Use the rule of thirds as a general guideline when cropping. This technique imagines that your photograph is divided vertically and horizontally into thirds by four lines (two vertical, two horizontals).
The four spots where these lines cross to serve as suggestions for locating your image’s focal point, or its most significant area.
Improve background images with blurring
There will be instances when you’ll want to use photos in your designs, but they don’t always have to be the focal point. They can also perform admirably in a supporting role. Indeed, we are talking about backgrounds.
Pictures may provide aesthetically engaging backgrounds for a variety of layouts. Nevertheless, since the majority of designs feature text over at least a portion of the backdrop, you will frequently encounter a problem: the photo’s details make the text difficult to read.What is the solution? Create a clean, uncomplicated background by blurring it. You can maintain recognisable shapes or sceneries in your backdrop photographs with a modest to moderate amount of blurring.
You can produce a soft, abstract wash of colours and/or imprecise shapes with a dramatic blur effect. This could be an excellent alternative if you desire a more dynamic background than a plain hue.
Check out the ideas for creating from Elementenvato with a blurred background for a more in-depth approach to using blurred backgrounds with real-world design examples.
Saturation: Increase or decrease colour saturation
Photographers and designers routinely modify the saturation levels of a photograph to intensify its colours, More saturated colours are bolder and brighter (closer to their purest form), whereas less saturated colours are more faded (closer to grey). Full desaturation produces a black-and-white photograph.
While every photo editing process can be overused, excessive saturation can result in an artificial and bizarre appearance. If you oversaturate an image, it will take on an almost neon-like appearance unless you’re going for a specific impact.
Increase highlights and shadows to create contrast
Raising contrast is an effective approach to make an image stand out and add drama. Increasing contrast provides brighter lights, darker darks, and a broader range of tones in between, making your image appear slightly more realistic.
In contrast, decreasing contrast can give an image a more uniform, flat tone. Along with saturation, excessive contrast is typically undesirable. It is possible for highlights to become blown out (too brilliant) and shadows to become too dark, resulting in a loss of texture and dimension in certain regions.
Increase the overall illumination
Lighting is one of the most difficult aspects of photography, even for professionals. While it’s ideal, to begin with, a properly exposed image, sometimes you’ll wind up with one that’s a touch too dark, and you may be able to fix it by adjusting the brightness setting.
Remember that adjusting the brightness will brighten everything (or darker). This should be done gradually and with care to avoid creating too bright regions, and you can often improve and balance the effects by altering the contrast simultaneously.
The Elementenvato Photo Editor also enables you to modify more image parameters in order to create the ideal image. Examine the sliders for an image’s warmth, vibrancy, clarity, highlights, shadows, and fading.
Enhance and correct photographs with filters
Owing to Instagram and other applications, filters have become a popular method of photo manipulation. They can be used to give aesthetic or unusual effects to photographs, but they can also be used as a shortcut to fix image flaws.
For instance, the image on the left in the above image had a yellowish hue. To achieve a more harmonious colour scheme, Elementenvato “Nordic” filter was applied to the yellow.
By using the photo editor on Elementenvato, you can choose from a range of filters to match your chosen aesthetic and further improve the image’s quality. Additionally, you may easily change the intensity of each filter for a more personalised outcome.
Nonetheless, filters should not be necessary for the majority of photos. If you’re attempting to achieve a particular effect, you should apply only one.
Arrangement: Use grids to improve your design
A clean and orderly layout is beneficial to any design endeavour. Aligning your design elements to a grid is always a safe idea if you are unsure of where to begin. Grids are another excellent technique to display several photos.
Frames: Improve image form and style
Similar to genuine picture frames that you place on the wall, framing images in design is commonly used to draw attention to the image. Depending on the style and tone of your project, frames may be basic or ornate, a single line or an illustrated design, coloured or not.
Improve photos by layering screens or overlays:
Sometimes you’ll want an image to be a little less prominent, typically so that text or other items on top will be more visible. While blurring is one way to accomplish this, there are additional methods that preserve the sharpness of your photograph.
Screens (sometimes known as overlays) are a prevalent method. These are colour blocks that sit on top of your image and are translucent. Changing the screen’s opacity impacts how effectively your image will be shown.
A more opaque screen gives a smoother, more uniform surface for your text, but it also obscures your image, so you’ll need to find an optimal level of transparency for your design’s needs.
You can layer more than two items, or make the image translucent and place it on top of a background. Use the “send to back” and “send forward” commands to test out various combinations.
Improve photos by superimposing text:
Text and images are the two pillars of graphic design. When combined, they are a visual communication powerhouse. Therefore try overlaying text on an image to add pertinent information (or picking an image that complements the subject of your text).
In photography, naturally open regions such as the sky or the lake provide good, clear spaces for adding type. See our comprehensive guide on how to combine text and graphics in your designs for more information.
Adding pre-formatted text combinations in the Elementenvato site editor is quick and simple. Locate the Text pane in the sidebar on the left. It displays numerous font choices from which you may choose and add to your photo. Then, enter your desired text, tweak the font size and colour, then drag and drop the text box to the desired spot in your image.
Auto Enhance: Correct and improve images automatically
The Auto Enhance effect will save you time and effort. Just adjust the enhancement level with a tap. The Auto Enhance effect enables you to swiftly make adjustments such as lightening a dark image, enhancing its clarity, altering its brightness, and achieving the ideal colour scheme.
