funny click-through photo series for noobs.
(via backeis)


funny click-through photo series for noobs.
(via backeis)
So you are trying to rent out your place, want to show off how you live or just keep memories – usually, the pictures won’t turn out the way you imagined.
Here are some tips:
When there is a bright window, you can try to put down the shades a little. That way you will keep it that from being overly white and darking out the rest of the interior. Also, you will probably have to overexpose a little bit when the room has white walls.
If your photo is distorted, I can recommend PTLens.
In Photoshop, you can adjust your colors and make them warmer or colder.
Once you have downloaded the folder (DCIM or whatever) or files from your memory card, rename the pics!
Renaming photos can be done as a batch operation with programs like iView or free ones like ExifRenamer:
Your file name will then be different from all the other image names you have ever had and look like this: »20090522_Sarah_002.jpg«

When you do alterations to the image, say photoshop or resize it, and you want to keep the original and mark that this image has been changed, then you should use suffixes. For example, your photo can be called »20090522_Sarah_002a_1000px.jpg« – and you will never take the file assuming it is in original size.
I also recommend making folders in the same structure: »yyyymmdd_Name«, for example: »20090522_Sarah«
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Why all this? Now you have a definite name for every single file and will be able to search for any photo taken on any date that you can look up via your calendar and what you did that da; or any photos of Sarah, for example. When someone asks you for a certain image, you can easily look it up on your computer by using search.
The earlier you start implementing this into your work flow, the better for you (as with all improvements). You can even go back and auto-rename all of the old images you have on your computer, because the programs can read out the date from your metadata (exif).
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PS.: Always remember that any digital file should have at least one backup.
Sometimes you may need to make a tiny file bigger – and usually, you end up getting artifacts or softness, be it from the former compression or the pixel size.
Here are some steps you can take in Photoshop:
The photo will now have more noise, but that usually looks better and more natural than that undesired softness.
You can click through to see this larger:
Oh, and another tip: You do not have to save your JPGs at maximum compression (12). 10 is usually enough, if you do not need high quality printing. And it saves a lot of space.
(And here is the original photo.)
this post was written up by reader vb:
Do you hate using your camera’s pop-up flash as much as me? I hate that blue color and shadow that it throws, so I rarely used the flash - until I found a cool trick. You’ll need some supplies but they’re free. Here’s how you do it:
Have no doubt that I have as much creativity in my body that will fit into a thimble. But, this is a neat trick a friend of mine told me to try. He said “gel your flash” and poked around a bit and saw that people had done this. I wish I thought of doing this earlier!
When editing in Photoshop, I feel like I’m able to manipulate it the same I would a jpg, no more.
(submitted by iwrite)
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snpsht’s response:
When you shoot in RAW Format, you will be able to get a lot more out of the photo you took than having it already narrowed down to the information a JPG can take.
With JPG, a final (and compressed) format, you cannot save such a large range of contrast/brightness and colors. The raw file is like a negative that you can still influence when it is being interpreted into a JPG. For example, see these two “prints” of the same raw file. The first one might have been your JPG, the one where you messed up the settings and thought you lost quite some information in the brightness and color (too bright and all greenish) to bad exposure – The second one is what you can still make of it!

For example, white balance can be done later and you can pick the area of brightness and contrast which is appropriate for your photo from lots of information stored. It will remember what you told it to do when you save the file your raw converter creates, but it will not overwrite your raw file, ever.
Of course, raw files are much larger and not for everyone. You should not give them out of hand and always convert to a format like PSD, JPG etc., so that the photo can be final.