|   Digital Photography tips. . . | JS5280
Nov 7, 2002 10:01 PM | | Thought others might be interested in this article. Here's the link. There's also some other links at the bottom of the article.
http://photos.msn.com/editorial/EditorialStart.aspx?article=TopFiveDigitalShootingMistakes§ion=FEATURES |
| Which digital imaging software? | Ripzalot
Nov 8, 2002 3:30 AM | | Not bad! I'm new to digicams so that was a good primer. Now what's the best imaging software for touchups? Unfortunately, I didn't get one with my digicam (Canon S330). |
| Which digital imaging software? | Dz
Nov 8, 2002 4:12 AM | | I think that the best photo porgram out there is probably Adobe Photoshop, now its pricy so you'd have to determine how much u relly need it. |
| Photoshop Elements | Yeti_Rider
Nov 8, 2002 7:48 AM | | is quite affordable (60 bucks or so) and it has basically everything a person would want to touch up pictures. Adobe essentially realized that the "normal" person wasn't going to spend the bucks for the full blown Photoshop package so they stripped it down and packaged it seperately. IT's got just about anything I think you'd need to do to retouch photos and since it's Adobe, there's plenty of online resources available for help.
Michael |
| Photoshop Elements..I second that... | cohenfive
Nov 8, 2002 12:11 PM | | another benefit of elements for mear mortals is that it's much, much simpler to use than photoshop... |
| Which digital imaging software? | Jeff Rage
Nov 8, 2002 6:13 AM | | Photoshop is definately a great program. I never even used the software that came with my scanner. It is expensive though. Windows comes with Microsoft Photo Editor, which I haven't had much experience with, but it's free. You could also check www.hotfiles.com to see if you can find some kind of free software, if that's what you are looking for. |
| Cannon S330 software bundle | Titan
Nov 8, 2002 6:31 AM | | I have the same cam. Check your contents: There should be a black CD containing ArcSoft PhotoImpression for photo editing. I haven't installed it yet, so I can't say how good it is.
http://www.arcsoft.com/products/software/en/pimpression.html |
| Thanks, I'll check for that when I get home | Ripzalot
Nov 8, 2002 8:09 AM | | I thought that seemed like a big omission to the bundle! The only thing I've been using is the photostitch program. I've been dinking around with some shareware photo editors programs but haven't found anything I like yet. |
| Nice add for Microsoft there... | sdbelt
Nov 8, 2002 8:58 AM | | Simple digi-cam photography lesson from sdb, focusing on what you need to worry about:
- Make sure the subject of your picture is obvious. That means frame your picture carefully. Avoid things sticking out of the back of someone's head (like a tree branch), or cutting off a person's hand, when the rest of their arm is in the frame, etc. Also, you should almost never frame a person's face in the middle of the frame. It should almost always be about 1/3 from the top of the frame, unless the person's face is the only thing in the picture. There is a rule of thirds when it comes to framing a picture. It states that the subject of the picture should be either 1/3 from the top or bottom or in the middle. Typically the subject of a portrait is the person's eyes...put those eyes 1/3 from the top of the picture and you'll be amazed at how much more pleasing your "snaphots" are. The nipple ad has the nipple 1/3 the way from the right...it's very pleasing.
- Put your digi-cam on full auto and take your pictures at the most detailed JPEG setting your camera has. It takes too long to convert from "RAW" formats to JPEG, so I'd recommend only shooting RAW if are getting paid to. Otherwise, your time is more valuable. Keep it simple and you are going to get a 95% solution with 99% less effort.
- The bigger your memory card the better. 128 MB is great. 1 GB MicroDrives are awesome.
- Flash is almost always your friend. Use it often.
- Adobe Photoshop is awesome. Auto sharpen, color leveling, brightness, and contrast are done by just pressing [CTRL]-[SHIFT]-L. One kestroke and the picture is almost always perfect...not 30 seconds as noted in this description of how bad the Microsoft software is.
Enjoy!
--sdb
My online portfolio |
| More info, from some local guy... | brianc
Nov 8, 2002 5:33 AM | | How to use a Digital Camera:
http://www.pcphotoreview.com/basic3040crx.aspx
Point and Shoot Techniques (read: getting the most from your non-SLR camera)
http://www.photographyreview.com/Learn%5Elessons%5Epandscrx.aspx
How to make good JPG's:
http://www.photographyreview.com/Learn%5Elessons%5Ejpgcrx.aspx
b |
| Try Irfanview at ..... | timbo
Nov 8, 2002 5:48 PM | | ... try getting Irfanview at www.irfanview.com
It is free and it is not bad for adjust the contrast brightness, etc. of pics, rotating, resizing, cropping, and other day to day tasks.... Also has a pretty good batch processing option if you want to do all of these things to a large series of pics.
It is not too bad at all for a free-ware. |
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