April
05-01-2007, 09:53 AM
Building off this tip here...
http://www.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/tips/levels.asp
I wanted to share another example.
Here is the original picture...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/oakapr/IMG_0661.jpg
...and here is the enhanced picture after some VERY EASY level adjustments. I also got rid of the chocolate on her face, copped the picture and increased the saturation a bit... all easy stuff. It took me only a minute for all of this. After adjusting the levels (read the tip shown on the link above) I used the bandaid tool in CS2 to get rid of the chocolate. You can use the clone tool too which is available in Elements. To adjust the saturation you click on Image>Adjustments>Hue Saturation or for Elements you find Hue Saturation somewhere under Enhance (I think it's Enhance>Adjust Colors> Hue Saturation). Move the Saturation slider slightly to the right and click ok.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/oakapr/meg3.jpg
Pictures from scanners and digital cameras usually if not always have a grey tint to them. Some pictures are really obvious and some aren't but adjusting the levels makes a big difference. The pro photographers would probably say to enhance the picture differently but this is an easy way for all the beginners to make their pictures look great. It seriously only takes 20 seconds or so.
If you have a different way to enhance this photo feel free to practice on the photo then tell us what you did. There are so many ways to enhance pictures.
http://www.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/tips/levels.asp
I wanted to share another example.
Here is the original picture...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/oakapr/IMG_0661.jpg
...and here is the enhanced picture after some VERY EASY level adjustments. I also got rid of the chocolate on her face, copped the picture and increased the saturation a bit... all easy stuff. It took me only a minute for all of this. After adjusting the levels (read the tip shown on the link above) I used the bandaid tool in CS2 to get rid of the chocolate. You can use the clone tool too which is available in Elements. To adjust the saturation you click on Image>Adjustments>Hue Saturation or for Elements you find Hue Saturation somewhere under Enhance (I think it's Enhance>Adjust Colors> Hue Saturation). Move the Saturation slider slightly to the right and click ok.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/oakapr/meg3.jpg
Pictures from scanners and digital cameras usually if not always have a grey tint to them. Some pictures are really obvious and some aren't but adjusting the levels makes a big difference. The pro photographers would probably say to enhance the picture differently but this is an easy way for all the beginners to make their pictures look great. It seriously only takes 20 seconds or so.
If you have a different way to enhance this photo feel free to practice on the photo then tell us what you did. There are so many ways to enhance pictures.