Curating, Quality Control & Presentation of Photographic Project

 Today we are looking at curating our images.  I have already curated my own as Tarot cards however just to look at quality control and curation again with the class I have picked these images.

The Fool: 1251/1268

The Devil: 1321/1320

The Lovers: 1425/1415/1451/1455

I have opened Photoshop and then I have clicked on File in the top menu and then open and I opened 3 images that were possibilities for my first picture in my collection. I visually inspected the images and chose the sharpest image and the one that I felt had the most impact.

After I chose my image I then went to 'image' in the top menu and then to adjustments and then to 'Curves' which opened a dialog box.  I wanted my black to be blacker to I very slightly moved the curves to darken and deepen the background

Next step is that we need to present image and make it ready for our website gallery. I then went to the top menu and chose 'File' and then 'New'. A dialog box opens and I chose 'Print' in the top menu and 'view all presets' 

I then chose A3 size, portrait orientation and it was 300ppi so that my background for my image is high resolution

My next step was to prepare my image for my canvas, so I clicked on 'Image' in the top menu and then I changed my image size (width and height) to just less than A3 Size (29.7 x 42cm) and then I changed my resolution to 300ppi to ensure that it was the same resolution as the canvas. 

I then went to 'Select' in the top menu and the 'select all' .  I then went to 'Edit' in the top menu and 'Copy'.  I then went back to my new canvas tab and then clicked on 'Edit' and the 'paste'.   I then clicked onto my move tool in the tools menu and using the transform controls I adjusted the image very slightly so I could add my title. 

I then clicked on the 'Text' tool in the tools menu on the left hand side and then I clicked on the canvas to position my text.  I then changed the font to Harrington.  I kept the colour black and I then changed the font size to 72pts. I then just positioned this to the right of the image on the canvas.

I then saved the image as a psd and jpeg file in my final images file ready for my website gallery.

I will repeat this process for all of my collection on my website.