editing stills

Editing PhotosWhat Are Multimedia Storytellers Allowed To Do?

CM210 MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING ● FALL 2012

Bruce Clary, McPherson College, McPherson, Kansas

The General Guidelines

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• You may edit photos to render them more like what the photographer saw with the naked eye.

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• You may edit photos to render them more like what the photographer saw with the naked eye.

• You may not add, remove, or alter anything in the photo. In other words, you may not do anything to the photo that changes what the photographer saw with the naked eye.


Review: When you shoot…

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• Avoid setting up and cleaning up




• Avoid setting up and cleaning up• Within reason… Do you not tell your subjects

what to do.




• Avoid setting up and cleaning up• Within reason… Do you not tell your subjects

what to do.• Do not rearrange settings… You are capturing

your subjects “the way they really are.”


Multimedia Journalists May…

Crop to Improve Composition

Multimedia Journalists May…

Improve Overexposed Shots

Photographers May…

Improve Underexposed Shots


Adjust Colors…for Realism


Sharpen…for Enhanced Clarity

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