By Cecil (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5639) on Friday, May 25, 2007 - 6:51 pm: |
OK you’ve taken some underwater pictures and now you have the task of making the picture match what you saw, that takes editing. Now how much you manipulate the image is up to you, I prefer more rather than less. In defense of this, I fall back on Ansel Adams statement that half the work is taking the picture. Here’s the other half.
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By Cecil (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5642) on Friday, May 25, 2007 - 7:23 pm: |
Now click Enhance, Adjust Color and Adjust Hue/Saturation. Increasing the Hue/Saturation is another step that should be done to all digital pictures as the colors are to mute (to my taste).
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By Cecil (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5643) on Friday, May 25, 2007 - 7:27 pm: |
OK here’s the before.
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By Becky Hauser (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1152) on Friday, May 25, 2007 - 11:45 pm: |
Wow, Cecil. Thanks for going through all that, I'm going to bookmark this so I can someday figure all this out! I'm photo-editing illiterate and this will really help.
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By William Gates (BonaireTalker - Post #67) on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 9:08 am: |
Great Inputs Cecil!
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By bob (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2025) on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 9:58 am: |
i'm a "auto-levels" clicker myself;)
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By Cecil (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5644) on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 11:30 am: |
There is three adjustment for sharpening, amount, radius and level. Radius I use between 2 and 3 larger is more effect. Level between 10 and 20 lower does more. Amount I vary with each picture and it can vary from 80% to 200%. This is the one to increase till you see artifacting then back of.
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By Cecil (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5645) on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 11:32 am: |
On cropping I left out an important step. Once you have the area selected, type ctrl-c, ctrl-a (new file box will appear), enter, and ctrl-v. The cropped picture should then be in the new picture.
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By Jerry (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5405) on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 12:03 pm: |
Thanks Cecil.
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By bob (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2026) on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 5:26 pm: |
no editing here...just playing...
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By Babs (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #11747) on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 7:27 pm: |
Nice review of all those steps Cecil! I'm going to bookmark this page for sure! I attended my dive club photo groups weekend workshop a few months back and we were using all those tools - dang if I can't remember them all without the notes I took!
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By Kelly (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5450) on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 9:05 pm: |
Ditto what everyone else said ! I will refer back to this when I get photoshop !!
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By bob (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2027) on Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 12:16 am: |
the whole photoshop line - photoshop, photoshop elements, photoshop lightroom - all good stuff - lots of different ways to "fix" things...
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By Russ Coash (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #210) on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 9:21 pm: |
I just starte editing some photos from our june 07 trip.
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By Cecil (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5738) on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 10:40 am: |
No real reason, just a feeling that contrast/brightness should come before color. If you get better results the other way then I can think of no good reason not to do it that way.
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By DARLENE ELLIS (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2451) on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 11:16 am: |
I have been busy and lurking lately. Wicked glad to see this thread!! Thanks for the lesson!
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By Susan - www.bsdme.info (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #436) on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 8:26 pm: |
You might also want to check into shadows and highlights. More subtle changes than brightness and contrast....
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