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04/06/2005 12:13:51 AM · #1 |
I took two pics at the beach today with my Dimage A1. I'm not an expert and don't claim to be, but I was really trying for a portrait of my kids. I set my cam to portrait mode and let the camera do the rest. The settings are just about the same, except I zoomed in a little on the brown-haired kid. Yet she seems to be pixelated and the quality of her photo isn't as good as her sisters. Anyway, here they are. Any ideas? The photo details are there.
Okay, maybe I'm nuts. She doesn't look pixelated on here. In Photoshop, the pic of the older child looks bad.
Message edited by author 2005-04-06 00:19:09. |
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04/06/2005 03:12:52 AM · #2 |
If you're viewing the image full-screen in PS it's way more blown up and looks way more pixelated. In the view menu, select "actual pixels" to view it in PS at same size DPC will see it.
I took a quick pass at the first one myself; the posted version is a little rough to work with, but is this any closer to what you'd be looking for?
Robt.
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04/06/2005 01:35:30 PM · #3 |
The pics are too small to do much 2tampering2 with - can you put them somewhere full size so that others can try to fix the pixel problem
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04/06/2005 01:41:01 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
If you're viewing the image full-screen in PS it's way more blown up and looks way more pixelated. In the view menu, select "actual pixels" to view it in PS at same size DPC will see it.
I took a quick pass at the first one myself; the posted version is a little rough to work with, but is this any closer to what you'd be looking for?
Robt. |
Robert,
I have noticed in many threads when people ask for help on photographs or if they post one for comment you are quick to help with improvement. I just want to say thank you for your efforts. I know you have helped me in the past and I see you helping others as well.
Just wanted to say thanks for your help and comments... |
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04/06/2005 03:01:40 PM · #5 |
It's fun :-) And it helps me too, gives me practice on a sort of image I'd normally not be working on. I learn new things that way...
But thanx...
Robt.
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04/07/2005 02:40:11 AM · #6 |
Thank you Robert! That looks really nice.
I uploaded the pics to my profile in their full version. But they are also here. |
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04/07/2005 03:32:09 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
It's fun :-) And it helps me too, gives me practice on a sort of image I'd normally not be working on. I learn new things that way...
But thanx...
Robt. |
I also like practicing. Here's my attempt at cleaning up one of the images:
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04/07/2005 04:21:50 AM · #8 |
OK... I've worked on the second one from the full size original. Here's the 640 version below. The full-size jpg is a coupla megabytes. Do you want it? How can I transfer it to you? I can attach it to email no prob IF you can accept a file that size...
I can do the same to the other image in higher resolution of you want me to. This was a pretty complex process, given a certain level of blocking up and muddiness in the original. Selection of sky/water was made, and adjustments of hue/saturation and selective color were made to both fields. Healing brush was used extensively in the face area in the shadows, where blocked-up blue artifacts were messing up the shadows. Healing brush and cloning were used in a few very small areas of the shirt to remove distracting spots, and also on one bright spot over the water near the face on the left side of the image. Very slight Neat Image was used, as was SUM. Saturation sponge was used on the lips near the end to make them a little rosier, and on the eyes to bring up a hint more color. The final adjustment was to load the sky/water selection, invert it, and make an adjustment level for color balance and shift highlights, midtones, and shadows ever so slightly, and progressively, into a warmer range. No levels or curves were used.
Robt.
Addendum: Incidentally, Having viewed your originals I'd comment that you are unconsciously making perhaps the most common of photographic errors among enthusiastic "snappers" of family images; you are placing the faces of your subjects precisely in the center of the frame, and orienting the camera so that the imaginary line that divides the face in half is vertically oriented in the image.
Thus your composition is static, with way too much sky, and your horizons are skewed. Rarely is the subject's face actually perpendicular to the horizon. Try making a conscious effort to move the faces UP in your framing of the shot. In both shots we've lost nice detail on the right hands of your kids when we cropped because such a radical rotation was required to level the horizon, and the hands were right at the bottom of the frame on the original image.
Message edited by author 2005-04-07 05:16:55.
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