OK SLY, Fix this picture

sly

sly

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Contrast improvement, white balance, digital de-blur effects, gamma correction, brightness... It's a long story. I also cropped part of the fish and increased the color contrast and I darkened in the eye region also.

That's the neat thing about digital photography. Usually the information in the photograph is there... It just needs to be brought out. One cool thing that you can do is take a picture of a newspaper with a digital camera. If you wash out the contrast and do some other things, you can then read the print that is on the OTHER side of the paper. Then all you do is reverse the image and then you are seeing the back side of the paper. :) It's real neat looking at pictures that people put up on ----. A lot of times they will put a piece of paper in the photograph for some reason. Then I can mess with the settings and see if that paper had any thing written on it but may have been hidden. Another cool thing you can do is write on a peice of paper out of a notebook. Then rip that page out and throw it away. Now take a picture of the blank page that was underneath the one you wrote on. I can mess with the contrast and get the words you wrote to show up because they leave a small indentaion in the page and you can get it to come out... :) :)
 
robchuck

robchuck

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Originally posted by Sly
Micrografx Picture Publisher 10. They don't make it anymore.
Even though they don't make it anymore, I'm curious to know how you think it stacks up against Adobe Photoshop.
 
sly

sly

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There are some things that Micrografx can do that Adobe can't and there are some things that Adobe can do that Micrografx can't. Overall I like Picture Publisher better. I think the interface is easier to use. Between the two, I like Picture Publisher better.
 
nitram

nitram

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just a test. I downloaded a free tool from google called picasa. All I did was push a button that said inhance photo, Not bad for free.
 
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naclh2o

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I have photoshop, but use adobe photo deluxe more...this was about 5 clicks....hardly trying. Just free software I got with my printer and scanner.....I dropped the size a bit to help the sharpness, upped the contrast, and removed some green and yellow to lean more blue and magenta, but there is only really so much you can digitally do when the fish was not very clear to start with....aside from actually altering it. The camera seems to have focused more on the background, so the fish is simply out of focus, and can't really be digitally brought back in.....I could "draw" in certain parts to make it sharp, but.....you could spend hours fixing one pic to make it "perfect". Your original mostly had two problems....the fish wasn't what the camera focused on, and you had way too much green and yellow.
 
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naclh2o

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I think the biggest thing is removing all that green and yellow...here's that pic with just me removing that.....HUGE difference. No other changes. Bluer looks better when taking saltwater pics usually.
 
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