How bout some Constructive Critisism?

[spoiled_momma]

So here are my first attemps at editing using photoshop cs. the original pictures was taken with my D70 in Raw mode. the other two pics are my attemps at editing Not real sure if either of them look good.. anyway any advice would be great. by the way my model is my minature dachshund Libby Lu.

thanks Kim

Original image

first edit

2nd edit as I thought the first looked kinda Yellow.

ok so now that i have previewed my post Why are my second pics smaller? I did crop them in photoshop I just used the crop tool them clicked the little check mark to make the crop is that wrong?

 

[ducklite]

Not sure exactly why your photo's are resized, probably when you cropped them you didn't resize them back to full size. The second try is OK, your white balance is still a little off--lots of white reflection on the dogs fur. Are you using a speedlite or the built in flash?

Here's my suggestion--I'd get the dog onto something a bit more contrasting in color, and get down to his level to take the photo.

He's a cutie btw!

Anne

 

[spoiled_momma]

I was just using the built in flash. Can you fix white balance in photoshop? I know it would be better to get it right in camera first. No i did not resize when i cropped i just cropped it. would you mind telling me how to resize when i crop?

thanks for your help

 

[Anewman]

I do not think the white balance was off in the first place.

 

[Anewman]

Not sure exactly why your photo's are resized, probably when you cropped them you didn't resize them back to full size.

Well I think it is a Photobucket thing, I did not resize but I know that photobucket resizes photos it deems to large.

 

[spoiled_momma]

I do not think the white balance was off in the first place.

Ok what did you do to that picture? libby's colors look right on. remember I'm a newbie.

 

[Anewman]

Ok what did you do to that picture? libby's colors look right on. remember I'm a newbie.

I did a levels adjustment, took longer to download and open the file than to do the adjustment.

Image>adjustments>levels>slid white point from 255 to about 190(around there).

Done.

 

[spoiled_momma]

I did that too only I moved the white slider all the way over to where the black on the graph started because everything I had read said thats what to do but it did make the picture to bright. Then I did a bunch of other stuff Thanks that looks much better and took way less time than all the crap I did. I guess I'm just having a hard time trying to determine what each picture needs to have done to it, so i just do everything.


would mind telling me how to crop my images but not reduce the size of them?

thanks again

 

[Anewman]

I did that too only I moved the white slider all the way over to where the black on the graph started because everything I had read said thats what to do but it did make the picture to bright. Then I did a bunch of other stuff Thanks that looks much better and took way less time than all the crap I did. I guess I'm just having a hard time trying to determine what each picture needs to have done to it, so i just do everything.


would mind telling me how to crop my images but not reduce the size of them?

thanks again

Remember guidelines are not rules and every image is different. But yes the guideline advise you to move sliders to the point of where the histrogram starts, but while you do this you need to look at the image as well(make sure preview box is always checked in Levels menu).

TIP: when adjusting levels press and hold the alt key, the image will turn black as you move sliders. As you adjust look at the black image, when parts of the image start to show up, YOU HAVE ADJUSTED TOO MUCH. Slide it back to where dots of the image just start to appear and release the ALT key. If you like the results click ok. If you dont like press ALT key and click reset. Remember this is not a rule.
END TIP.

Cropping using the crop tool.
If you crop with no values set in the resolution box(in the horizontal toolbar), you are not resizing other than throwing away the pixels you cropped out. If you set a value in the resolution box you are resizing(resampling) to that size.

 

[ducklite]

Well I think it is a Photobucket thing, I did not resize but I know that photobucket resizes photos it deems to large.

Good call!

Anne

 

[manning]

I was just using the built in flash. Can you fix white balance in photoshop? I know it would be better to get it right in camera first. No i did not resize when i cropped i just cropped it. would you mind telling me how to resize when i crop?

thanks for your help

As long it is raw yes. Raw is like a negative. What the camera sees is what is recorded, unlike jpg where the processor in the camera makes adjustments to the picture before it is recorded.

 

[ducklite]

As long it is raw yes. Raw is like a negative. What the camera sees is what is recorded, unlike jpg where the processor in the camera makes adjustments to the picture before it is recorded.

Keep in mind that while RAW can be corrected for lighting, color, whitebalance, and such, it can't be corrected for blur and out of focus.

Anne

 

[Anewman]

And white balance can be corrected in JPEGS as well, yes much more efficient with raw but entirely possible with jpegs.

 

[ducklite]

And white balance can be corrected in JPEGS as well, yes much more efficient with raw but entirely possible with jpegs.

I haven't had much luck correcting white balance more than a fraction in .jpg's, although I'll be the first to admit I haven't played with it all that much either. But if you are going to want to do any correcting, RAW is the way to go.

Anne