Snake Picture Tutorial (step by step)

[Nordinho]

Since not everyone has a fancy camera or a lighttent, I will try to explain how you can easily improve your snake pictures with Photoshop.

Tim Johnson from RoyalMorphz allowed me to use a picture of his pretty Pewter.

I start to open this picture in Photoshop:


Then I will add some brightness to the picture, because it is a little dark.
Image --> Adjustments --> Brightness/ Contrast --> Add brightness

Now the image looks like this:


The image is still dark and the snake can be lighter. I use the following steps:
Image --> Adjustments --> Levels
I use the white dot to increase the brightness of the background and the grey dot to increase brightness on the snake.

The image should look something like this:


Now I follow the last steps:
Image --> Adjustments --> Exposure
I add “Exposure” to increase the white of the background even more and I use “Offset” to get the right contrast on the snake. Then I use “Gamma correction” to tune the brightness of the snake.

The final image will look like this:


Have fun with editing your pictures!

[eMonk]

nice writeup thanks for sharing!

[Kysenia]

Awesome write up, very helpful

[Blue Apple Herps]

Nice write up. Should really help a lot of people out.

[specialk01510]

This is a great write up. Should help ALOT of people with their photoshopping and pictures in general.

If I could make a suggestion... You should add a little segment of like what drop down menu each of the tools are in. I know I have photoshop but hardly ever use it so I am far from an expert. I have tinkered around with it but never really learned it. I couldnt tell you where the tools you used are or how hard they are to find. Maybe a little thing like for example, my recent history on IE 8 (history/recently closed tabs/general BP's ball-python.net) I dont know if that was a good example but it was the best way I could think to explain it.

I think this should be stickied if you do that. Probably anyway, but this would make it useable by everyone, not just the experienced user.

Thanks for the great write up on photo editing. I will use this later when I take my first pictures of my new guy (Im stoked!!) He came in the mail while Im at work today.

[Maize411]

Nice writeup and will definitely come in handy! Thanks :0)

[Jerhart]

Cle-ver!

[m00kfu]

Just be careful you don't over do the software exposure or it will start to blur the lines between the snake and your background.

[N4S]

Definitely good for breeders to beef up their 'Available' photos. haha

[I<3Dreamsicles]

Definitely good for breeders to beef up their 'Available' photos. haha