Thursday, April 2, 2009
Pictures
Just before I left for Germany, a girl from my ward gave a little crash course on how to take better pictures. After the meeting, I was determined to figure out my camera and try to take better pictures. So, here are a bunch of pictures I took of my little niece during my brother's wedding. She had taken off with one of the flower petal baskets we had for the civil wedding, and a cookie. I played a little bit with the color options we had, but we don't have a good program to edit/work on pictures. Does anyone have any recommendations of free programs? What do you think of the pictures?
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Try using Picasa. It's free and made by Google. I use it on all my pictures where I don't want to go to the trouble of photoshopping them. For most pictures I just hit the "Auto Contrast" button and then bump up the saturation and sharpness a tiny bit.
Well, I do have contrast, brightness, tint, saturation and color options already. I was looking for something that has a little more to offer (like black and white or sepia)...
Paint.net is pretty good, has a lot like Photoshop but it's free.
Henry
I like your little photo shoot. You had some really good angles there. I'm with you though, I'd like to use my camera a little better.
Das sind js so typische Pilou Gesichtsausdrücke :)
Die ersten beiden fand ich von der Farbe etwas kalt.
Die letzen fand ich gut.
Hey Fran, your pictures are lovely! I really liek the first two!
I'm also trying to figure out how to use my camera better... I do a lot of photoshopping with Adope Photoshop CS3, but from what people tell me, paint.net is as good and for free, so I'd definitely give it a try.
Btw, there are lots of online tutorials on taking professional-style pictures... and how to photoshop and airbrush (very useful to know, if you ask me.. ;))
I just use the editing found on our Mac Iphoto. It has everything we need. But I've also learned nothing can really fix a bad shot, so I'm trying to get it right the first time.
We have both PhotoShop CS3 and Photoshop Elements, which, I believe, came with Rob's laptop (or was that one of those that he pirated before he decided that he didn't want to pirate things anymore?)
Anyway, I've found that Elements can do many things that CS3 can do...and it's a bit more user friendly. Unless you want to get into graphic design and major photography stuff, I wouldn't bother with CS3.
My sister, Angie, told me that you had this question and thought I could give you some ideas.
Noiseware is a great piece of free software. It helps take out the "noise" to produce softer images. It really is amazing.
http://www.imagenomic.com/nwsa.aspx
I don't know what kind of software you already have now, but Photoshop is the best around (Elements would get you by too unless you plan to be professional.) You can download lots of free actions that add lots to your pictures too.
But the stuff you've got is pretty darn good too!
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