Take all of your pictures with some nice and even lighting with no flash. Try and shoot by a window that lets in ambient light, but not direct sunlight.
1. When you first open your image file you are going to right-click on the "background" layer and select duplicate layer:
2. Then you are going to go into the filter menu and select "lens correction":
3. Select the lens you are using- this will fix some of the lens distortion. We are shooting with a Nikon kit lens; here are the setting for it:
4. Now you need to crop the image. Use the perspective crop tool. Click and hold down on the 5th tool down in the toolbox. When you click and hold down you will see a small menu come up. Select the perspective crop tool:
5. Click on one corner, and then click on another corner:
7. Click on a third corner:
8. Click on the fourth corner and then hit enter:
9. Now that the image is cropped, go to the filter menu>sharpen>unsharp mask:
10. Adjust the amount, radius, and threshold until the image becomes crisp. Don't over do it on this or else the image becomes grainy:
11. Then go to the image menu>adjustments>brightness & contrast:
12. Adjust brightness and contrast as desired. Again; don't overdo it or else the image gets really messed up:
13. Then go to the image menu>adjustments>hue & saturation:
14. Adjust hue and saturation as desired; a little bit goes a long way!
15. Then go to the file menu and select "Save As"
16. Select the file format "Photoshop" this will save your file as a very high quality image for backup purposes:
17. After saving, go to the file menu and select "Save As" again:
18. This time select "JPEG" as your file format and click save:
19. Set your quality to "12" and hit okay.
20. You are finished editing your photo!
