Showing posts with label Editing Softwares. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Editing Softwares. Show all posts

Friday, February 17, 2012

Top Five Basic Tips to make your Photograph Extra-Ordinary from a very casual & ordinary shot

Today one of my friend came to me and asked about some basic tips to improve his casual shots from last trip to Europe. During the process, I told him very basic things which helped him making Photographs better. I thought of sharing the top five edits one should try to make an ordinary photograph extra-ordinary. Let's check out..Let's take a casual shot and go step by step to understand the sequence of Edits I would recommend 1. Open a Photograph in Adobe Photoshop Elements through File Menu.2. Select Crop tool on Left Tool-bar and remove unwanted areas. Also try to fit your main subject as per rule of thirds, if possible. If you don't know about it, forget and we shall share more details about it.3. Now do to Adjustment Layer options below Layer Panel and select Levels. Levels Adjustment Layer makes a lot of difference to a Photograph. See the screenshot below to understand what you need to select and click.4. Notice the highlighted part below, which should also be visible on your workspace of Adobe Photoshop Elements5. Moved extreme sliders towards inside until you feel that it's making photograph too dark or too light. When done, select the middle pointer and play with it. Extreme pointers are for handling Darker Pixels and Brighter pixels of a Photograph. Middle slider works on Mid-Tones. Levels help in making elements of the photograph stronger. At times, it can be a big blunder is not used appropriately6. Notice the changes we did to this Photograph and amount of movement in each slider. You may choose to stick to a limit which will also give you decent results unless photograph is not clicked in extreme light conditions - Dark area or very bright area.7. Now check out the image below to know about next adjustment we are going to discuss. Next is to select Brightness/Contrast Adjustment Layer.8. Play with Brightness and Contrast sliders. Both of these sliders need to b used in sync as right mix of Brightness and Contrast is important. For example, if you have photographs with darker shades, you may want to increase the Brightness by keeping contrast low or Vice-vers 9. Hope so far you have been liking the change in above photograph and the photograph you are trying in your Photoshop Elements. If you are not trying it., believe me it's not going to help anyway. So if not started yet, open your workspace and follow from top. If not completely, you will enjoy the process and the sequence shared here. With practice you can do miracles with these editing steps. It's all about understanding the compositions with respect to lighting, contrast, colors and placement10. At times, Editing tend to change the colors in a photograph. In above photograph I notice pale colored tint and want to remove that. At least want to keep the hen in white. So let's select Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer.11. In above photograph Saturation of Yellow is decreased so that it looks white and more real. At the same time Hue of red is changed in conjunction with increasing the Saturation 12. We have applied four adjustments to original Photograph so far - Crop, Levels, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation. Now we want to just add a frame to the photograph. Few people don't like Frames so can simply avoid the last step and we promise to share more tips around making photograph beautiful with minimal efforts.13. If want to add frame, go to Image Menu and Resize Canvas Size.14. Below shown dialog will be shown. Choose the border size accordingly with color of your choice and click OK.You are done with this and hope you understood the basic concepts around these 5 editing controls which is more important than your final result. It's completely OK, if you haven't got right result in one go. Now you can simply save the results as PSD and later adjustment layers can be tweaked to make them better.

Today one of my friend came to me and asked about some basic tips to improve his casual shots from last trip to Europe. During the process, I told him very basic things which helped him making Photographs better. I thought of sharing the top five edits one should try to make an ordinary photograph extra-ordinary. Let's check out...
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Saturday, June 19, 2010

How to process camera-raw files of your latest SLR in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0?

"Could not complete your request because Photoshop does not recognize this type of file." ???
"The file is damaged or is a format that cannot be included."???

If you have Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 and bought a new camera like  Sony A450, you must be facing the problem of opening your cmera files in Organizer as well as Editor.

Do you know why this happens?

Actually most of the camera manufacturer have their own proprietary file format as we have NEF for Nikon, CR2/CRw for Canon, SR2 for Sony etc. These manufacturers add another complicity when NEF of D200 is different that NEF of D90. Now Adobe has a plugin called "Adobe Camera Raw" which supports these file formats and provide flexibility to process/edit them.

Different versions of Adobe Camera Raw Plug-Ins support different Camera Models. Like, files of Canon 7D are supported in ACR5.6

To Understand more about it, refer : http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html

Above mentioned link talks about which cameras are supported in latest version.

So if you have Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 installed on your machine and trying to import/process files from latest cameras, you will not be able to do so.

For that you will have to update ACR Plug-In. Here are the steps you need to follow for this:

1. Close Elements Organizer and well as Editor.
2. Go to http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html and download latest Windows Plug-In
3. It will have Camera Raw.8bi file
4. Go to "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\Elements 8\File Formats\"
5. One 'Camera Raw.8bi' file will lying on this location.
6. Rename this file and copy the downloaded file into this location.
7. Relaunch Organizer and import the files of your latest SLR

It should work. If its still not working, send a comment here...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

How to process raw files of your latest SLR in PSE7?

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If you have Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0 and bought a new camera like Nikon D90, you must be facing the problem of opening NEF files in Organizer as well as Editor.

Do you know why this happens?

Actually most of the camera manufacturer have their own proprietary file format as we have NEF for Nikon, CR2/CRw for Canon, SR2 for Sony etc. These manufacturers add another complicity when NEF of D200 is different that NEF of D90. Now Adobe has a plugin called "Adobe Camera Raw" which supports these file formats and provide flexibility to process/edit them.

Different versions of Adobe Camera Raw Plug-Ins support different Camera Models. Like, files of Canon 7D are supported in ACR5.6

To Understand more about it, refer : http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html

Above mentioned link talks about which cameras are supported in latest version.

So if you have PSE7 installed on your machine and trying to import/process NEF of Nikon D90 or Canon 7D, you will not be able to do so.


For that you will have to update ACR Plug-In. Here are the steps you need to follow for this:

1. Close Elements Organizer and well as Editor.
2. Go to http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html and download latest Windows Plug-In
3. It will have Camera Raw.8bi file
4. Go to "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 7.0\Plug-Ins\File Formats\"
5. One 'Camera Raw.8bi' file will lying on this location.
6. Rename this file and copy the downloaded file into this location.
7. Relaunch Organizer and import the files of your latest SLR

It should work. If its still not working, send a comment here...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Welcome to Adobe Photoshop Elements Blog

Adobe Photoshop Elements is the consumer version of the Adobe Photoshop, targeted at hobbyist group of users and hence sold at a fraction (roughly 1/6th) of the cost of the professional product. It contains most of the features of the professional version but with fewer and simpler options. The program allows users to create, edit, organize and share images, all from the same product.

Photoshop Elements targets photography enthusiasts and it offers simplified features with great functionality.

I am a great fan of Photoshop Elements and wanted to create this blog where anybody can share different Tutorials, Tips & Tricks about PSE. Hope that some of my friends will help me making this blog a useful source of information for Photographers who likes to use Editing Softwares.

Photoshop Elements  8.0 is latest version of PSE and here are some statistics about its sale on Amazon.com:


*** 84% buy Adobe Photoshop Elements 8
*** 10% buy Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Elements 8
*** 5% buy Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 [Mac]
*** 1% buy Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate & VideoStudio Pro X2 Bundle

Now onwards I will start sharing some details about some useful and Cool features in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 ...
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