OT: Photo processing
no66y�
I've been looking at some of the fab photos from Buxton (jeez, was that
awesome)
Anyways, Just wondering how others have dealt with their photos.
All I did was drag them off the cameras memory card, maybe a bit of cropping
if needed,
resize (is there a special way to do this ? I just do it in the oldish
version of paint shop pro I have) and save........
I know some do fancy things with photoshop, but I was just wondering what
peeps on here had done (if anything)
maybe to compensate for lighting, blurring etc....
cheers
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Woody
My pics of the evening event, done on the SLR all had the wrong colour
temperature, so I corrected the colour temperature of them (they are raw
so this is easy). Other than that I just cropped them to frame them as
well as can be, and uploaded them. The hardest part was working out what
to upload, as there are 250 of them.
If anyone wants bigger versions of any of those pics on my facebook
link, just say, or any other pics that aren't there.
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JNugent
Greg
I hate to sound like a mac evangelist, but this is where iPhoto really
shines. Import, edit, tweak, tag and upload to facebook or flickr all
in the one programme. Dead easy.
However, I wonder if Picasa may be able to help you on your way?
Greg
Matt
I imported mine into Lightroom, did a quick crop and colour correct
[some I left, some I just let Lightroom auto white balance], and that
was it. I did shoot a couple of shots of a SpyderCube at the start of
the evening and created a custom white balance in camera, but, tbh the
result was no better than using the generic incandescent/tungsten
profile and then letting Lightroom do its work.
My biggest problem, even with a widest aperture of f1.7, was getting
enough light into the camera to avoid using very slow shutter speeds
and high-ISO. Also, focusing accurately in that light. I could have
just brought a rangefinder camera and shot film, tbh.
Matt
Woody
I must admit I did use iPhoto. normally for the DSLR photos I would have
used aperture, but that is on the wrong machine!
> However, I wonder if Picasa may be able to help you on your way?
I was quite impressed with it on the PC, but I don't really have many
pics on my PC so maybe it was just that it looked like iPhoto?
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George Weston
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I'm no expert but I try to do the following (doesn't always work!):
1. First, ensure camera is on correct setting option for the ambient
light/flash/no-flash/red-eye reduction/face-recognition, whatever.
2. Transfer pics to computer.
3. Open them up in Photoshop/whatever.
4. Apply auto-contrast - this is a good way of making things look better
simply and quickly. It works for me anyway and unless the picture is
horribly blurred or too light/dark, you shouldn't have to bother with any
more tweaking in most cases.
5. Crop to get rid of extraneous bits as required.
6. Save to required size - done.
George
no66y�
Thanks for the advice.
Just a quick check and the paint shop pro I have doesn't seem to have an
auto anything (its ver 7.0 from 2000, it came with a pc I got in years ago!)
I did have a quick look at picasa some time ago (OK, when it was first
released which was a few years ago now)
So I think it may well be worth a revisit.
I'll also have a look at the Paint.Net too.
Lightroom maybe a tad expensive for my needs :-) (free is good)
Basically, I've use the paint shop pro as a "front end" for the flat bed
scanner. Anything after that becomes secondary.
Now however, I'd like to produce some acceptable photos and thought maybe I
should try a bit harder.
Basically I'm a bit dim when it comes to photography. My camera is set to
automatic _everything_ and I should really
attempt to learn how to use it properly I guess. Its on my list of things to
do!
Aside: I have also been looking at Steve Dix's comments on video conversion
so may re look at 2 of the videos I have already done on FB.
(the 3rd I did slightly differently)
Ah, these learning curves can be darned steep at times!
Cheers for the help again guys, much appreciated.
/me trots off to check out picasa...
George Weston
I have a copy of Paint Shop Pro 7 at work and I'm sure there are icons there
to do auto brightness, colour and contrast.
I'll check tomorrow and come back on this one.
George
no66y�
"George Weston" wrote in message
> I have a copy of Paint Shop Pro 7 at work and I'm sure there are icons
> there to do auto brightness, colour and contrast.
> I'll check tomorrow and come back on this one.
Cheers George, appreciated.
Though I must say, I'm getting some cool results with Picasa at the moment.
I've just produced a cool promo type picture of Mr Murry from a raw image
that was so dark it was unusable.
Ohhh, this is fun!
George Weston
Careful - the photography might take over from the guitar playing!
;-)
George
no66y�
"JNugent" wrote in message
I'm just grabbing this now. I've had a play with Picasa and it seems pretty
good, nice an easy to use.
I managed to "rescue" a couple of shoys that where just a dark mess.
Impressive.
I'll have a look at Paint Net next and see how that goes.
I'm also re encoding some video using Handbrake (as suggested by Mr Dix)
I'll see how that turns out (I'd used a cheap and dirty method for "2
minutes to ..." and "Alive".
If they work out OK I'll add them to UKMG youtube channel.
I'm also uploading "out of nowhere" to my youtube channel.
My pc may melt......
George Weston
Just had a look at my copy of Paint Shop Pro at work. it's Version 7.04.
It does have one-click auto-correction icons on the photo toolbar (colour
balance, contrast, saturation, red-eye, etc.)
If the photo toolbar isn't shown, bring it into view by clicking on
view/toolbars/photo
That should do it, hopefully.
George
Steve Dix
Which version of psp? I've used PSP 5 in the past, and that can do a
lot. You can edit the contrast etc. very easily, as well as doing
gamma correction - which is a way of stretching out the colour range
in the photos to match the colour ratios your eyes detect- which can
bring a lot of colour to an otherwise murky photo. You'll find these
options under colours->adjust. The best way to learn how to use them
is to practice on a photo.
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Steve Dix
wrote:
>My biggest problem, even with a widest aperture of f1.7, was getting
>enough light into the camera to avoid using very slow shutter speeds
>and high-ISO. Also, focusing accurately in that light. I could have
>just brought a rangefinder camera and shot film, tbh.
>
>Matt
Last year was a nightmare for video, because the stage was so dark.
Chris Bolus
Personally I use Macromedia Fireworks, which has a nice batch processing
utility which will resize the whole lot in one go. In fact it could do
the brightness/contrast as a batch too if I were to work out a
reasonable average first.
Somebody mentioned Paint.net; you might also consider Gimp
http://www.gimp.org/ - although it's a Linux package there is a Windows
installer which is said to be as good as Photoshop, or the free version
of PhotoPlus from http://www.freeserifsoftware.com
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no66y�
about this stuff!
Paint Shop Pro - ah! I never noticed the option for the photo toolbar (see
previous comments about it being used primarily for a flatbed scanner)
I had a quick play but I'm not totally sure what I am doing as yet.
Pain.Net - this looks pretty powerful stuff - hmmm, free too! Some of the
stuff seems a bit bewildering but well worth poking around I think (a longer
term project I think)
Picasa - OK, this is dead simple - even a simpleton like me can use it :-)
Obviously not as powerful as the above but enough to play with initially.
With it having the "auto" correct features its great for me to start with.
Damn, should learn some of this stuff!!
There are a few things I'm not too keen with Picassa but these are
minor...........
Now all I need is a web photoalbum :-)
Again, many thanks for the advice :-)
Woody
> Somebody mentioned Paint.net; you might also consider Gimp
> http://www.gimp.org/ - although it's a Linux package there is a Windows
> installer which is said to be as good as Photoshop
It is true that you can do most things in gimp that you can do in
photoshop assuming you have an almost infinite amount of non billable
time, and can cope with the sort of user interface that would make even
a java programmer cry.
Chris Bolus
Hence my comment "said to" - I've played with it for a few minutes on
one of my Linux boxes, and really couldn't get my head round it. But
then again I have Adobe CS3 and haven't got to grips with that either -
as Fireworks does all I require, I've not had the need to. Or the time!
Steve at fivetrees
>
> Now all I need is a web photoalbum :-)
Have you tried iWebAlbum? Works for me:
Steve
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Greg
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:36:17 -0000, "no66y©" <bou...@bounce.com> wrote:
> >Hi
> >I've been looking at some of the fab photos from Buxton (jeez, was that
> >awesome)
>
> utility which will resize the whole lot in one go. In fact it could do
> the brightness/contrast as a batch too if I were to work out a
> reasonable average first.
I'm surprised Fireworks hasn't been abandoned by Adobe yet. I fully
expect it at some point to be swallowed up by photoshop like they did
their own image ready programme in a future CS release, or make it
into an entirely new program, much like they did with Pagemaker to
create InDesign. (PS, photoshop and even paintshop pro can do batch
processing too)
>
> Somebody mentioned Paint.net; you might also consider Gimphttp://www.gimp.org/- although it's a Linux package there is a Windows
> installer which is said to be as good as Photoshop, or the free version
> of PhotoPlus fromhttp://www.freeserifsoftware.com
I've just thought. I've never tried it, but the free web version of
photoshop may be worth a look.
Greg
Chris Bolus
<grege...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>On 11 Nov, 18:28, Chris Bolus <chr...@bolus.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:36:17 -0000, "no66y�" <bou...@bounce.com> wrote:
>> >Hi
>> >I've been looking at some of the fab photos from Buxton (jeez, was that
>> >awesome)
>>
>> Personally I use Macromedia Fireworks, which has a nice batch processing
>> utility which will resize the whole lot in one go. In fact it could do
>> the brightness/contrast as a batch too if I were to work out a
>> reasonable average first.
>
>I'm surprised Fireworks hasn't been abandoned by Adobe yet. I fully
>expect it at some point to be swallowed up by photoshop like they did
>their own image ready programme in a future CS release, or make it
>into an entirely new program, much like they did with Pagemaker to
>create InDesign. (PS, photoshop and even paintshop pro can do batch
>processing too)
>>
Strangely, Fireworks was dropped in CS3 but reinstated in CS4! I think
it fulfils a need; it's less complex than Photoshop.
I'm not familiar enough with Photoshop to know what batch processes it
handles, but certainly the last version of PSP I used (7) didn't have
half the batch functions that Fireworks has. Including the batch resize.
Woody
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:11:08 -0800 (PST), Greg
> <grege...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >On 11 Nov, 18:28, Chris Bolus <chr...@bolus.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:36:17 -0000, "no66y�" <bou...@bounce.com> wrote:
> >> >Hi
> >> >I've been looking at some of the fab photos from Buxton (jeez, was that
> >> >awesome)
> >>
> >> Personally I use Macromedia Fireworks, which has a nice batch processing
> >> utility which will resize the whole lot in one go. In fact it could do
> >> the brightness/contrast as a batch too if I were to work out a
> >> reasonable average first.
> >
> >I'm surprised Fireworks hasn't been abandoned by Adobe yet. I fully
> >expect it at some point to be swallowed up by photoshop like they did
> >their own image ready programme in a future CS release, or make it
> >into an entirely new program, much like they did with Pagemaker to
> >create InDesign. (PS, photoshop and even paintshop pro can do batch
> >processing too)
> >>
> Strangely, Fireworks was dropped in CS3 but reinstated in CS4! I think
> it fulfils a need; it's less complex than Photoshop.
It wasn't - I have fireworks CS3.
It fulfills a need which is entirely different and is not covered even
slightly by photoshop. OK, you could use photoshop to do some similar
things, but they are designed for quite different workflows.
Sabby swears by fireworks for web graphics and slices etc.
> I'm not familiar enough with Photoshop to know what batch processes it
> handles, but certainly the last version of PSP I used (7) didn't have
> half the batch functions that Fireworks has. Including the batch resize.
Photoshop has a huge number of batch processes, but again, for a
different thing than fireworks