Saturday, May 14, 2005

Snapshot image cleaning by Maricon Williams



Time is precious and we dont want it to slip away that easy without taking advantage of its significance. To circumvent waste of time, Snapshot can be a great help to us.

Snapshot is a valuable technique to save our precious time when working with images in Photoshopbe it an original copy image, something from a digital camera or from a scanned slide or negative. This is usually used to clean up images such as images for publication use.

The technique is so easy, it only involves a four-step method and is easy to recall. You can make use of this in many situations like adjusting levels, color, saturation, sharpness and other corrections without wasting time with layer masks, lasso tools, layers, rubber stamping or magic wand. To ensure that your eyes are fixed to your subject, you can use this method.

Soft-eyes are scanning problems inherent of the natural film curvature while scanning. To avoid soft-eyes problems, use snapshots technique which allows fixation in few seconds. To do this, first open your file. Then go to filter > sharpen > unsharp mask. After that, a dialog box will appear with unsharp mask defaults. Set the default amount to 75 percent, radius to 1 pixel and threshold levels to zero or one. Finally, click OK. You may notice that the entire image has the unsharp mask applied to it beforehand. As a result, it sharpens the overall image.
The texture is no longer as soft as it first appeared. This is the time when the snapshots will save your artwork.

To correct the flaws, you must go to the history palette. If it you did not find it in your desktop, you can find it normally on the right in Photoshop by default. Go to window > Show history. Once you have located your history palette, select the bold arrow-button on its right side. Click and hold it until a menu appears then go to New Snapshot. When you release your mouse, another dialog box will appear. You must enter in it the name unsharp eyes, then click OK.

If you have more than one snapshot in a working file, do not forget to label your snapshots to be able to have a better workflow management when it comes to organization of your images. It is nice to do it that way for easy and fast selection and for an efficient scheme.
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EASY EDITING USING MICROSOFT IMAGE SUITE 10 by Blur Loterina



Are you fond of digital photography? Are you looking for a new tool that will let you organize, edit, enhance, share and archive your digital image? Read on.

Microsoft's Digital Image Suite 10 is a package that offers you the advantages of both Digital Image Library 10 and Digital Image Pro 10. This upgraded image editing software is ideal for digital photos. With added features from Digital Image Library 10, you will be able to organize your photo collection. It helps you upload your photo easily. You can even rate images or flag them for future use. Library also allows you to add captions on your images and categorize them using some keywords. You can classify your images according to date, size, favorites, ratings and more. It has an automatic back-up reminder to safeguard your photos in the right places.

This software will enable you to edit images with ease. Just launch the Digital Image Pro 10. It logically arranges your tools and enables you to make changes using the Auto Fix commands. Although, it offers fewer options and requires complex commands, it will provide you with excellent results.

Digital Image Suite 10 allows you to create a movie out of your photos. Its a sort of a stop motion animation thats commonly used in cartoon movies and clay animation. A stop motion animation is a process in which pictures are arranged and shown in such a way that it looks as if the motion is continuous.

Also, it features an easy-to-follow wizard that lets you to create a video out of your photos. Not only that, you can also add background music, narration and title pages.

It contains flags that will remind you of the next steps, such as which photos need to be printed or sent. With Auto Fixes, your camera phone images can now be adjusted. This feature helps you edit the color, exposure or any imperfection automatically. You can also use the Color and Exposure toolsets to balance brightness, washed-out colors, and the like.

This program also allows you to adjust curves including red, green, blue, saturation and luminosity. Also, you can eliminate noise, red eye effect, and faded or bright color pixels.

Another remarkable feature is the Smart Erase tool was added so that you can remove unwanted images or backgrounds. Its Panoramic Stitching feature enables you to put together vertical and horizontal photos to show the whole story in one single scene. It also allows you to burn images to CDs or DVDs.

Microsofts Digital Image Suite 10 is your complete tool for editing images, as well as adding life to your photos. One drawback is that it only allows you to edit images one at a time, which means that you cannot have two or more copies of an image when editing.

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Photoshop - a perfect complement of photographer by Maricon Williams



You and I both know that Photoshop is the tool that most of the photographers around the globe use. There is no doubt that it is the hands-down best to photographers when it comes to photo editing, enhancing and other adjustments. It has become and remains the industrys standard in photography. In a matter of fact, photographers have found a perfect complement in Photoshop.

Anybodyboth amateur and professional can take advantage of the powerful features of the Photoshop. In the post production process, it is the most ideal tool for scanning in or digital photographs. Some of the prominent adjustments in the Photoshop are the following: contrast, brightness, levels, color balance, curves, hue, saturation, selective color, channel mixer, de-saturation, variations and in the new version which is the Photoshop CS, you have the powerful Shadow/Highlight tool and Photo Filter adjustment which allows you to try out different 'camera filters' on your image.

Not all the time that you take pictures, you get your desired results. It is sometimes frustrating to know, especially during a momentous event that the pictures you have taken are blurred, imperfect and does not suffice your expectations. However, when you have problems in connection to your photos, you can bank on Photoshop. It can show you many ways to fix picture imperfections. You can adjust the brightness values and color values of your images, you can erase flaws and so on. If you took a photo at the wrong exposure you can adjust it in Photoshop. You can touchup your photos and add effects. Quality image enhancements and adjustments are just mouse click away from you.

Ever since Photoshop arrived in the photography industry, it has been considered as good news to both photographers and photo lovers. Gone are the days when you can easily be dismayed by the results of the supposed to be unforgettable occasion. With Photoshop, you can have excellent photos all the time.

Photoshop presents a wide variety of choices and remedies to make your photographs accurate, striking and memorable. Numerous options are available this is the reason why renowned photographers are relying in Photoshop to enhance their pictures. They do not rely on lesser programs because they can hardly compare it to Photoshop benefits. Photoshop rules the photography world. That is a fact for a quite a long time now. There are many competitors out there but nothing equals the power of a Photoshop!

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