FUNS STUFF; quick touch ups for your Photos
When you buy a Digital Camera and take all those photos you’ll want to print them. And as always there will be those you want to print but they just need a little touch up.
A good program is Adobe Photoshop Elements. Their new release is Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 with Elements Premier 3.0. These days Adobe is bundling Photoshop Elements 3.0 with Cameras, Printers, and new computers. So if you’re in the market for a new camera check to see if this is in the bundle. Most good graphics programs are basically the same and you can do this with any of them.
I have a boating pictures that I took over the weekend and I want to crop it and take some of the water away.
.
• First I resize the photo to 300 DPI. Note the original Pixel count.
• Then using the select tool I drag it over the image selecting the area of the photo I want to keep
• Find your crop tool; In Elements it’s under the Image tab, the photo is now the part that you selected.
• Resize you image this time to the same pixel count that the original photo was. As long as you don’t crop away too much of the original photo your final picture shouldn’t lose any of its quality.
• Next do an auto fix; the program will determine the best settings depending on the existing, content, contrast, and Hues.
You photo is ready to print!
If you don’t have any Photo editing software, you and always use the Printing Kiosks, Both Kodak and Fuji have them. I’ve checked both sites and only Kodak gives online instruction on how to use their Kiosk. But either one will give you the same result and if you need assistants the photo lab specialists at your store will be glad to help
April 9th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Thanks for the tips. I tried Adobe Elements and thought that it was really quite slow and seemed a bit bloated. I have about 1 Gb of RAM so that’s not the problem. Photoshop is more to my liking.
Cheers
-=:mark:=-
April 9th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
I totaly agree, Photoshop is a much better program and I prefer it also, but most people cannot pay the high price that comes with it. Elements is usually bundled with a purchase
April 12th, 2007 at 4:33 am
The thing I liked about Elements was the Slideshow capabilities. I have not found another program with quite as much versatility as Elements.It’s too bad it’s so slow.