Photoshop Beginner: How to Make Photo Products Look Better

As beauty blogger, sometimes we found out that our photos are too dark and needs to be edited before posted on our blog. Nevertheless, we don't know how to make it look better and just add watermark and leave them with that condition, which is supposed to be BIG NO.

Today I will share to you, the most basic photo editing (by using Adobe Photoshop), in order to make our photo products look better with better brightness and better color :D Hopefully this tutorial is helpful enough,

! Attention please !

I use Adobe Photoshop CS6 for this tutorial

Better use a sharp-detailed photo rather than blurred photo :)

Please make sure that your hand isn't shaky while capture a photo, and use right mode (normal or macro)

I always make sure that my photos are clean, and bright enough. What if the photos aren't bright enough?

I always use Photoshop as my weapon to make everything's better ^_^

Here we are, these are example for you. Before and after edited, which one better?

I captured these photos at evening and when I opened the result photos, they're look too dark and absolutely need to be fixed >_<

I always avoid too-dark photos and bad colors, in this tutorial I will show how to fix this ^_^

Of course you need to open your Adobe Photoshop and practice this tutorial with me~

Before start: change the image size first (optional)

Smaller image, faster computer performance

1. Change brightness & contrast:

Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast

Adjust the brightness & contrast, just test and trial and see how it will works after you drag the cursor with different kinds of style ^_^ I will go with Brightness: 83 & Contrast: 33

Tips: don't forget to tick the Preview box, so you can see the result in preview mode before click OK

After the brightness increased, you might notice that the colors are not vibrant & vivid anymore,

you need to adjust the hue/saturation then :)

2. Adjust Hue/Saturation

Click Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (or simply click Ctrl+U on keyboard)

In this step, you will see there are few options to adjust Hue/saturation.

Just leave Preset as default, and change the next column either Master / Reds / Yellows / Greens / Cyan / Blues / Magentas. Next, if you want to enhance RED color on your photo, please choose Reds (or Alt+3).

In this case I want to enhance the Etude House BB Bright Fit's packaging color & rose color, so I clicked on Reds :) Again, don't forget to tick the Preview box, so you can see the result in preview mode

Adjust the saturation: if more than > 0 the colors would be more vibrant

if less than < 0 the colors will look pale, grayish and dead

Every object which contains Red element would be adjusted automatically.
If you choose master, every colors on this photo be more vibrant. Meanwhile, if you choose green, every object which contains Green element would be adjusted and so on. Just try it by yourself and you will know the differences ^_^

And it's done!

Much better, isn't it? :) the photo becomes brighter & clean while the colors are still vibrant and vivid.

You may want to ask me: "How if my photos are not sharp enough? How to fix it?"

If you want to enhance the sharpness of the images, you also can follow this additional tutorial ^_^

the object

3. Sharpen the Photos!

Click Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen Edges

(you always can try another options, you know ^_^ just try and test them to know best result for you)

I clicked "sharpen edges" two times in order to make the object much sharper.

Tips: don't over-sharpen it or it will looks fake and strange.

See.. before and after editing.. 

Do you notice that the BB cream letter becomes slightly sharper and cleaner? :)

What do you think about this tutorial?

Please forgive me if this tutorial isn't professional enough >w< This is my first Photoshop tutorial :p

Hope you find this tutorial is helpful ^____^

Please let me know if you have tried it, okay? :D

for the rest of photos of this BB cream, you can see my latest review
HERE :)

Thanks for reading~

See ya on my next post! ♥♥