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It depends what you have done or not done as to why your prints are darker. If you have an LCD computer screen, they will be. All LCD screens have brightness defaults which are too bright. So you can wind down the brightness by 50% to improve quality. Then you have to calibrate the colour. [...]
If you only want to edit photos, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 is probably your best bet. It is much cheaper than Photoshop and has almost as many features, if not a few more to do with photos, albums, printing, collages etc. I bought a magazine the other day called ” Photoshop Elements Essentials” and it [...]
You can use many graphic programs to alter the brightness or darkness of a photo, but usually only using an auto feature. You can get some quite interesting effects if you use Curves in Photo shop. Once again, I’m using Photo shop 7. That’s too dark a picture, so: 1. Go to Layer>New adjustment layer>Curves [...]
Personally I am a bit of a purist when it comes to photos, but recently I’ve had photos rejected from the sites I upload to and I’ve realized that everyone is photoshopping their photos now. Here is a tutorial on highlighting a section of the photo and making the rest decolourized. This may work for [...]
1. Open Photoshop. 2. Create a new file with 200 x 200 size with 72 resolution and RGB mode. Background content should be WHITE. 3. Check out Layer palette. It will show the locked background layer. We will not do anything with background layer now. 4. Create a new layer. 5. Select the background layer [...]
1. Create a new image at 2×2 pixels in white. 2. With the pencil tool, make a 1 pixel dot at the top left corner and another one at the bottom right corner of the image in the colour that you want to make semi transparent. 3. Define the image as a pattern. 4. Create [...]
Adobe Photoshop CS2 – How to Modify Colors with Hue/Saturation Here’s the changed dog. The old dog with blue eyes is just back here. How did I do this? 1. Open photo in Photoshop 2. Zoom in 3. Use Elliptical Marquee Tool and use over one eye at a time. 4. Go to Image > [...]
This site is a must. I certainly need to learn a bit more about videos and audio. There are photoshop tutorials also. http://www.mediacollege.com/
I have been a photographer for many years and have done courses and developed my own photos. Now though, I only use a digital camera a Canon Power Shot S30 in fact. I bought a digital camera very early on and paid a fortune at the time. Since then, digital cameras have come down in [...]
