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PI
Version:
8
Level:
Intermediate
Additional filters:
None
Additional
files: Picture
... I used one photo from www.pics.am,
where you have to be a member to download. By the time I
wrote this tut, the membership still was free, but now you
have to pay for it.
Tutorial:
Copyright © Inge Klement |
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DESCRIPTION:
Easy
way to enhance your photos with a click or two!
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Open
the photo you want to enhance (the one I chose is also one I
found on pics.am).
To show you the difference one click can make, I duplicated
(Ctrl+D) the photo. The one on the top shall remain my
original, and I shall work on the one below.
This photo is easy to enhance.
Go to Format/Auto-process/Level (white arrow), and you're done.
As you can see, the photo below
looks much better as the original.
Sometimes it's nice with a color-cast on your photos but not
every time. And then it's good to know how you can make
your precious photos perfect.
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Sometimes
the Auto-process doesn't work as you would like it to. In that
case, try using Format/Level or Format/Tone Map.
For this example I shall use the Format/Level Command.
On the screenshot you can see
the picture enhanced with Auto-process/level, but I didn't
like the color-cast PI created. I felt
there was too much green in the picture.
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Here
I use the same photo, but instead of the Auto-process, I chose
Format/Level.
First of all, I try to Zoom In (red arrow) on an area, which
should have real white pixels. In this case I decided to use
the sky, all to the right. (You can see a little bit of the
mountain and the sky inside the two windows.)
Then I chose the eyedropper for the white pixels (1) and then I
picked one pixel inside the left window. (You can see the the
eyedropper sign on the screenshot.)
If you don't like the result, hit the Reset button and try
again with another pixel in the left Level window.
If you're satisfied with
the resulting picture, click OK.
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Even
if the pictures are on the small side, you can see clearly the difference.
1= Original
2= Auto-process/Level
3= Level/white eyedropper |
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That's
it! You can do the same with the two other eyedroppers (for
black and for grey pixels), all depending on your picture.
It's not always possible to enhance photos that way, but you
can always use the sliders inside the Level or Tone Map
window. Try this tutorial on bigger pictures and you will be
amazed how much change one little click can make.
HAVE FUN!!!
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If you need any help with
this tutorial - or want to make suggestions to improve it -
please email
me!
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rights reserved.
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