Quick Fix for Adobe User's
Beginner | Rating: 8.67 Votes: 9
Views: 3997 | By: Zilo  |
| Category: General Subcategory: Photography | Date: 2003-01-09 03:37:12 |
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I found an incredibly easy way of adjusting pictures so they are viewed alot more like the real thing.
Its quite short and simple , but you do need adobe photoshop. Basicaly all you do while you are in the program is load up the pic then hit :
Shift + Ctrl + L
This is the hotkey combo to auto adjust all the levels of the picture so they appear more as the real thing. It gets rid of unwanted tints in a picture like say if something turns out yellowish . It also enhances the brightness and contrast so pictures appear chrisp and life like.
Anyhow here are some sample pics of the adjusting, sorry but I had to borrow these pics from other articles which were written by Mengu (First example) and Honza (Second example). I had gotten over-zealous with all my old pictures and re-adjusted and saved them before I could get before and after pics. 
Before 1
After 1
Before 2
After 2
Hope this helps out! |
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Wyatt the Odd
25 March 04 |  |
Rating: 9
I use photoshop daily in making sucky pictures better. Here are a couple of ideas that make the article work better - I'm going to stick to Photoshop only and not touch on anything relating to taking the picture - that's another article.
1. If your picture lacks definition, use UNSHARP MASK (Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask). Set your RADIUS to 2 Pixels and PERCENTAGE to about 50% Leave LEVELS at 0 or 1. BE CAREFUL as this may result in a white halo around different colored areas. To rid yourself of the halo, go to EDIT, and choose "FADE UNSHARP MASK" Choose Luminosity and adjust slider until halo disappears. This is especially good after resizing an image.
2. To ajust colors, go into the image tab and change the mode to CMYK. This gives you the ability to edit CYAN (light blue), MAGENTA (Barbie Pink), YELLOW and BLACK. Choose each channel in turn. You'll notice a Histogram which looks alot like a drawing of a mountain range. It'll probably have a big spike in the right side of the graph. Move the right hand slider to the left until you reach the highest point of this spike.If you have PREVIEW selected, you will see the color adjust as you slide. As you move the slider in the YELLOW channel, for instance, you should see yellow disappear. Yellowed areas may become white (like they should be) or they may have a bluish or pinkish tint. You'll want to adjust those channels accordingly to lessen the tint. Moving the slider in the BLACK channel will lighten the image and bring out hidden detail. When done, return image to RGB mode or else browsers will not be able to open it.
-Wyatt the Odd
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billr
30 January 03 |  |
Rating: 10
The GIMP works on windows too. 
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Badaab
11 January 03 |  |
Rating: 7
An easy way of adjusting the 'yellow' tint in a picture is by adjusting the white balance inside the camera (for digital camera users), or by using the properly balanced film (for SLR users).
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Miracle
10 January 03 |  |
Rating: 8
Yep, can make a bad photograph become better. I use this one, too. Unfortunately it doesn't work on all pics, sometimes it's better to adjust it by hand.
Good lighting and camera are better nevertheless 
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twonk
10 January 03 |  |
Rating: 10
That believe that would be the Auto Level feature.
In a nutshell, it takes the highest and lowest levels in the picture and balances out the colors accordingly.
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Crusoe the Painter
09 January 03 |  |
Rating: 10
Yes! The Gimp ( a free image editting tool for Linux ) has this feature too!
-Crusoe-
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