Got a question about photograph editing.. I have an ok camera and I need to take some pictures of some stuff but I need it to look professional with out having to buy a expensive camera. So does anyone know how to edit the picture to be more crisp and clearer to have the feel of a more professional picture.
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Photo Editing Help
Started by b00g3R, Aug 16 2006 08:54 PM
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Posted 16 August 2006 - 08:54 PM
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Posted 17 August 2006 - 02:22 AM
All depends on the camera and the photo taken.
There are bout 1000 books and even more techniques to improve a photograph.
Sharpen, remove green overlay and using the edit curves are usually some of the steps to take, but its very time consuming to do it right, and it doesnt help being a bit colorblind like me
There are bout 1000 books and even more techniques to improve a photograph.
Sharpen, remove green overlay and using the edit curves are usually some of the steps to take, but its very time consuming to do it right, and it doesnt help being a bit colorblind like me
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Posted 17 August 2006 - 11:04 AM
Its hard to tell how to make a picture look pro... The best way is to make reality and the camera do all the work for you. But also editing lightning in photoshop is faster and cheeper then to buy pro spotligts. There are miljons, gazilions effects to add to a image making it suit its purpose better but in the end its all in the eye of the beholder. For example if you look in any fasion magazine you will find a flood of pictures of faces and bodys edited and retuched beyond recognition. Myself I think those images are rubbish because they display perfectness in a way that doesnt exist, making the image loose its soul if you will.
You can edit the curves all you want to attack bad colours on your screen but there is nothing that says the people who in the end looks at the image have the same colour display settings as you have also if you are going to print your work the colours will never look the same as on your screen because your screen glows and the colour in the printer are not the colour on your display. You have to redo do more right and redo again when printing to get the decired result. It all comes down to probability that you come up with the image that the most people will be able to look att and think what You want them to think about it. It may be taken with a gigapixel-super-real-human-eye-focal-lenght-engraved-in-goldplate-10x10-meters-by-nasa-lasers but it still aint pro if most people looks at it and thinks, "What on earth is that picture all about???" Unless you wanted them to think that ofc.
You can edit the curves all you want to attack bad colours on your screen but there is nothing that says the people who in the end looks at the image have the same colour display settings as you have also if you are going to print your work the colours will never look the same as on your screen because your screen glows and the colour in the printer are not the colour on your display. You have to redo do more right and redo again when printing to get the decired result. It all comes down to probability that you come up with the image that the most people will be able to look att and think what You want them to think about it. It may be taken with a gigapixel-super-real-human-eye-focal-lenght-engraved-in-goldplate-10x10-meters-by-nasa-lasers but it still aint pro if most people looks at it and thinks, "What on earth is that picture all about???" Unless you wanted them to think that ofc.
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Posted 26 August 2006 - 07:57 AM
Scythar, on Aug 17 2006, 03:21 AM, said:
All depends on the camera and the photo taken.
There are bout 1000 books and even more techniques to improve a photograph.
Sharpen, remove green overlay and using the edit curves are usually some of the steps to take, but its very time consuming to do it right, and it doesnt help being a bit colorblind like me
There are bout 1000 books and even more techniques to improve a photograph.
Sharpen, remove green overlay and using the edit curves are usually some of the steps to take, but its very time consuming to do it right, and it doesnt help being a bit colorblind like me
can you explain "remove green overlay", im curious, thx
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Posted 26 August 2006 - 11:39 AM
Most of the time the photograph is all about the thoughts behind it and that the horizon is indeed horizontal and straight instead of going down-, upwards.
These simple photo basics makes it much easier to make the shot look pro. From a simple point-and-shoot such as my own Nikon Coolpix 4600 you can get great shots, the only thing you lack with the shot is the ability to control it yourself, the camera will auto do it for you.
As you move up the advance parts of the cameras you'll find that what you get more is more control over your pictures, more options and for the (d-)SLR cameras can change your lens etc.
As far as editing it up in PS goes, if you made a great shot at a quite high resolution with a camera that has at least 4mp you'll get a shot that is good quality with most surely good detail and good colours (depending on you when you took it).
If you shoot outdoor shots a tripod (a relatively cheap investment) is a must have. That will ensure your shots being straight and well balanced.
Again since I didn't get to say what I should have before, as far as editing in PS goes you might not need to do much as said, but if you really want to do something you might want to look into the levels and contrast's and possibly add some matte finish on it if you want to make it look like a print.
Most time the pro shost comes right out of the camera without much editing and it is more about how you took it than the camera.
Hope that helps a bit
These simple photo basics makes it much easier to make the shot look pro. From a simple point-and-shoot such as my own Nikon Coolpix 4600 you can get great shots, the only thing you lack with the shot is the ability to control it yourself, the camera will auto do it for you.
As you move up the advance parts of the cameras you'll find that what you get more is more control over your pictures, more options and for the (d-)SLR cameras can change your lens etc.
As far as editing it up in PS goes, if you made a great shot at a quite high resolution with a camera that has at least 4mp you'll get a shot that is good quality with most surely good detail and good colours (depending on you when you took it).
If you shoot outdoor shots a tripod (a relatively cheap investment) is a must have. That will ensure your shots being straight and well balanced.
Again since I didn't get to say what I should have before, as far as editing in PS goes you might not need to do much as said, but if you really want to do something you might want to look into the levels and contrast's and possibly add some matte finish on it if you want to make it look like a print.
Most time the pro shost comes right out of the camera without much editing and it is more about how you took it than the camera.
Hope that helps a bit
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Posted 26 August 2006 - 02:49 PM
Digital cameras (just like scanners) got the tendency to put some kind of blue-ish (or greenish) cast over the photo, so what you usually do is go to the image > levels in photoshop (but thats not the only reason to go to levels) and try to remove this cast.
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Posted 26 August 2006 - 03:08 PM
check out some of the tutorials on P2L for photo touchups etc
http://www.pixel2lif...ch/4/touchup/1/
http://www.pixel2lif...arch/4/photo/1/
http://www.pixel2lif...ch/4/touchup/1/
http://www.pixel2lif...arch/4/photo/1/
Edited by Tirus, 26 August 2006 - 03:19 PM.
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