Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Document Size increases on changing from Higher PPI to Lower PPI || What exactly is PPI - Pixels Per Inch in a Photograph

First of all, Let's understand what PPI is ? PPI stands for 'Pixels per Inch', which has literal meaning that when a image is constructed, how many pixels are places in one inch region of that photograph. More the pixels, better is quality and increase the chances of using this image for various purposes. This is one of the reason that many times people reduce the PPI for a photograph before posting on websites or blogs, so that others can't use them for any commercial purpose. Let's continue this discussion from here...

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Incorrect Sunbofders created while importing through Adobe Photo Downloader in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0 || Hot-Fixes for Adobe Photo Downloader in PSE10

Recently Adobe found some problem with Adobe Photo Downloader in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0 and some fixes have been provided. This mainly talks about the workflow when users download media-files (photos or videos) using Adobe Photo Downloader, subfolders are created with an incorrect date. Select Advanced Dialog > Create Subfolder > Shot Date  from Adobe Photo Downloader to create a subfolder for the downloaded assets. The subfolder name has an incorrect date. This is the user problem Adobe has tried to fix.

If you are facing this issue and want to resolve check out following links as per your version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/930/cpsid_93025.html - For Users having Windows version of Adobe Photoshop Elements

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/930/cpsid_93050.html - For Users having Mac version of Adobe Photoshop Elements

Friday, February 24, 2012

Skin Color Correction in Adobe Photoshop Elements || Red, Cyan & Yellow color corrections for natural skin color.

Skin Color Correction is one of the main topic which is discussed many times in various Photo Editing workshops, Conferences and popularly in Fashion workshops. Today we are going to discuss some very basic workflows which can help you getting decent skin colors are adjustments. This article is mainly around some basic tools which can be used to correct colors in general, but example is mainly for skin color. Let's check out these basics and see how these work for you...

Skin Color Correction is one of the main topic which is discussed many times in various Photo Editing workshops, Conferences and popularly in Fashion workshops. Today we are going to discuss some very basic workflows which can help you getting decent skin colors are adjustments. This article is mainly around some basic tools which can be used to correct colors in general, but example is mainly for skin color. Let's check out these basics and see how these work for you.. Before we start with Color Correction in Adobe Photoshop Elements, let us make this clear that skin color varies from one region of the world to other and so values of basic colors. But method we will discuss should be helpful in handling all natural shades of human skin.1. As a logical step, we would want to open the photograph in Adobe Camera Raw Dialog, so just go to File Menu and select Open as option as shown in the image below 2. Following dialog will be opened. Select the Photograph and open as a Camera Raw file which can be defined in the second dropdown3. The very basic idea to open in Adobe Camera Raw dialog is to do some basic adjustments like Auto White-Balancing etc4. Notice the huge difference by just selecting Auto option in White-Balance Control of Adobe Camera Raw Dialog in Photoshop Elements5. When done with basic adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw dialog, click on Open File button which will open the photograph in Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor workspace. Now go to Adjustment Layer options and select Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer in Adobe Photoshop Elements as shown in image below.6. At first we select Yellow channel and played with Saturation slider mainly. This photograph was too vibrant, probably due to wrong White balance and odd light conditions while photo was shot. Saturation is too high, so we reduced it for yellow. Image below shows the photograph before change7. Here are results after reducing Saturation for Yellow channel and then moved to Cyan and also played with Red8. Hope you got the idea of playing with different colors channels and their saturation level. This gives lot of flexibility in controlling Saturation, luminance and Hues of various color channels like Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Cyan and Meganta8. As an added thing we can continue to play around with other Adjustement layers for Birghtness, Contrast etc...

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