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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Golfer on September 29, 2006, 02:31:54 PM
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I have some pictures that I've taken which I like. I think they're just fine and dandy as they are but my lack of skills with photo editing programs leaves me with no idea how they'd be improved.
Beyond adjusting brightness, tint or such I really don't know the capabilities of the different programs or which is better and why.
Suggestions of different programs (Photoshop is one) or actually "how" you'd go about modifying them or why you'd modify would be a great leg up for tinkering
Thanks.
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/856_1159558121_deer.jpg)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/856_1159558107_leartakeoff.jpg)
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looks good to me as is
I am in the middle of putting together a dvd slideshow for my older sister's 50th birthday next month. I have been digging out and scanning photos from the mid 50's to present. Some of the most memorable photos are the blurriest, darkest, crappy looking ones of the bunch. A photo is a memory captured to paper/file for later re-living. The majority of those viewing the photos will not care if byebye or rip have improved your photos through software. just saying.
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Is this what you meant by "improved"?
(http://hallbuzz.com/images/unlinked/leerdeer.jpg)
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I've yet to see byebye do anything so thats partially a dig at him :)
Any rate I realize that as snapshots these are fine. I'd like to get some proficiency in some of the editing software available for my own "artistic" reasons. That and I'd like to be able to take pictures and edit them for fun and humor.
I hear humor is still allowed in some countries. It scares me! :cry
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Almost exactly, eskimo!!!!!!!! :lol
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Golfer,
I haven't used it personaly (I'm colourblind... wouldn't be a point now would it). But I heard a lot of good about Gimp. (No, not the "Furball" kind)
http://www.gimp.org/windows/ (http://www.gimp.org/windows/)
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(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4329/deersy8.th.jpg) (http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deersy8.jpg)
sorry wrong pict before
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What did you do to it ramzey? I keep flipping back and forth and can't figure it out.
Ah now I see. It looks like a green filter? Shadowing different? I'm looking for terms/definitions rather than just tweaking the pictures.
It's interesting. Not natural, it's different but it is interesting.
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Golfer, (apart from removing dust or scratches from a scanned photo) most of the "editing" you'd ever have to do with photos like that is color-correction and contrast adjustment... and that's really only if you intend to print the pictures.
It's a can of worms unto itself... you need to calibrate your monitor to your printer, or if it is someone else's printer, find out what profile they use and calibrate to that.
I wouldn't worry about it... you will never be able to adjust a photo so that it looks good on everybody's monitor, you have no control over that.
If you're talking about image manipulation (like what Eskimo did :)) then Photoshop or an equivalent will do you just fine.
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He saturated the colors a little. Case in point; your monitor may not show it.
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Dux the picture he had up before was the same one. I now see the new one he editied in :)
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sorry i upload wrobg picture before
honesty there is not much for color correction, just play with saturation as Dux said
imho first thing you have to improve is taking SHARP pictures, otherwise they are just scrap not worth to publish
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Photography is an art and everything about the way a picture looks or how it is composed or presented is subjective.
That's one reason why I went off on ripsnort. He even "improved" Wolfalas wedding pictures, for Christ's sake, in a thread about a wedding, not photography.
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or this?
(http://hallbuzz.com/images/unlinked/doubledeer.jpg)
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Doh found where I went wrong with the lear pic
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/856_1159562119_lear35rotate.jpg)
having it blown up to "original" poster size. Ooopsie.
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what is your camera? do you have manual settings?
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Canon PowerShot A630. It's brand new and I'm still figuring out how to work different things. There are manual modes but don't know where to start.
Things were so much easier with film and a darkroom.
Here's the camera: http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=2182472#post2182472
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Originally posted by eskimo2
Is this what you meant by "improved"?
(http://hallbuzz.com/images/unlinked/leerdeer.jpg)
LOL! Put the red light on the end of his nose and you have perfection.
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Or if you want the picture to be a real attention grabber:
(http://hallbuzz.com/images/unlinked/psychodeer.GIF)
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Someone stop me:
(http://hallbuzz.com/images/unlinked/leartakeoff.jpg)
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(http://hallbuzz.com/images/unlinked/deertards.jpg)
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lmao!!!111!!
zOMG eskimo, u owe me an ass!!!111:mad: :mad: :mad: :furious :furious
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LOL!!!!!!!:rofl :lol
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Originally posted by ByeBye
Photography is an art and everything about the way a picture looks or how it is composed or presented is subjective.
That's one reason why I went off on ripsnort. He even "improved" Wolfalas wedding pictures, for Christ's sake, in a thread about a wedding, not photography.
You just a jerk, admit it. Now you sit here and justify why "you went off on me"? What are you, a thread cop now?
It's obvious that you're using a shades account, and were once banned, or don't have the nerve to show your true identity and you have an axe to grind. Christ...you haven't added one positive thing to this forum since you joined, what, 2 weeks ago? WHere are you skillz that you brag about? SHOW ME. Show or shut up. :)
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Originally posted by eskimo2
(http://hallbuzz.com/images/unlinked/deertards.jpg)
I have met women who look like the deer on the right.
edit.. well heck, both now that I think of it.
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Golfer, before you buy any software, why don't you try this online editing to get a feel for things you can do? Just play around with the image you upload. You can't break it.
http://pxn8.com/
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Great work Eskimo:rofl
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If you want free software then you have stuff like GIMP and PhotoFiltre. Very basic stuff can be done with Picasa. Version 2.5 (beta) of picasa even allows you to upload the pics to your own free 250mb sspace if you have a gmail account.
If you dont have gmail i can send invites