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Photo Editing n00b! Feedback welcome!

  • 19-10-2008 11:13pm
    #1
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,663 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    Howdy. Was looking for some feedback on how I could edit these photos to improve them. Any feedback on the photos themselves are also welcome. They are amateur. :)

    Link below to random photos!

    http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh95/faceman101/Random/

    The photos in the album are as they were originally taken accumulated over the years hence the variable levels of "expertise"! Therefore none of the photos have been altered yet. Im using Pixelmator to edit photos on Mac.

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    kjt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,057 ✭✭✭kjt


    I only tried one image for you as I'm still going through my own from the weekend. All I did was a bit of colouring, brightness, curves and levels :)

    before_after.jpg

    Large File


    Maybe if you wanted to know something a bit more specific you could post up just one image and what you want to get out of it. Maybe pop it into here.
    Hope that helps!
    :)


  • #3
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,663 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Nice one kjt. Whats curves by the way?


  • #4
    kjt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,057 ✭✭✭kjt


    Here's a little tutorial on it :)


  • #5
    AnCatDubh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭AnCatDubh


    Photoshop / the Gimp and most serious image editing applications (and some not so serious) have a control / feature known as curves which allow you to adjust colour, contrast, and brightness by 'pulling' a line up or down along a x-y scale. Typically you will see people using an 'S' curve which is strangely enough shaped like an 'S' (!) You basically click on the lower part of the line to the left, click on the upper part of the line to the right and hey presto you have a 'S' curve which can do wonders for images. You can adjust the points there after to highten or lower the intensity.

    That's the gist of it anyhow (if not a technically perfect explanation) - you have to try it to appreciate it. You can go mad with it so subtlety is probably the name of the game.


  • #6
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,663 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Excellent, i think i remember it now from my photo app but didnt know what i was doing! I appreciate the tips folks!

    PS. do my photos suck?


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  • #7
    sheesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    faceman wrote: »
    Excellent, i think i remember it now from my photo app but didnt know what i was doing! I appreciate the tips folks!

    PS. do my photos suck?

    no stop being so needy!!! *slaps faceman across the head


  • #8
    davmigil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭davmigil


    Like the statues one. Keep up the good work. Look into using Levels. I find it easier to understand than curves and once you get the hang of levels curves starts to make more sense!


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