Best practices in pet photography
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Try these photo-editing tips to elevate your photos with pets to the next level. 1. Frame your photo for the best composition with Make sure your subject (pet) is either in the center or at the intersection of thirds: 2. Make sure there are no distracting objects of contrasting colors in the background or foreground. These may be flowers, people, leaves, and so on. To remove them, such tools as and tools can be used. ! Note that if you need to remove sharply visible objects, such as a leash, for example, will be the great to use.
3. If the background is quite sharp, it’d be better to create a slight bokeh effect, to keep the sharper focus on the pet. You may do it with> Gaussian Blur. Use Masking > the Mask AI tool to select the surroundings of the pet to apply Gaussian Blur to these areas.
4. You may need to brighten up the image if the pet is dark with . Or darken the image a bit in case of overexposure on the pet. 5. Increase contrast with the Smart Contrast slider underl and /or the Accent AI slider under the tool to make the subject pop, especially against a simple background.
6. Removing/decreasing some predominant hues from the fur or the background may be helpful to ensure the natural colors. For example, we may need to decrease blue hues from the white fur and yellow hues from the green background. For we select > HSL > Saturation: 7. Let’s sharpen the pet’s eyes and fur to bring out details. We can use several tools for this purpose. Before applying changes, make sure to select only the pet with Masking for each tool: > Small details:
(Universal, Low): ! These tools - Details, Supersharp AI and Structure AI - may also help sharpen the important blurred objects, such as a pet’s toy. Remember to mask the object in advance. 8. The final touch may be increasing the visual volume of the subject by painting some of its shadows and glares. We may use for this. Paint the glares with the Lighten brush: And paint the shadows with the Darken brush:
By following these recommendations, you can significantly improve your pet photos.
