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United States
I Got Here First! (30) *
manyee
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3062 W: 231 N: 6152]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (21016) |
Crop, adjust contrast, brightness | Finland_in_Eton
![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 156 W: 23 N: 225]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-s-g.gif) (876) [2008-04-09 02:23:44] [1] | | Hi, I did a crop to bring the head/eye out of the center of the image. Picked up the color a bit using color fade tool, and adjusted the contrast and brightness by using unsharp mask, set low and then the clarify tool ... all in PSPPXI. Hope you don't mind. :-) |
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India
The Asian Elephant Series 9 (26)
goldyrs
(9259) |
adjusted contrast | | Finland_in_Eton
(876) [2008-03-20 09:35:03] [2] | | Using PSPP XI unsharp mask and clarify to bring up the contrast just a bit. |
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Iceland
Puffin (16)
michielk (16) |
improve color/contrast/sharpen | | Finland_in_Eton
(876) [2007-09-11 02:42:00] [4] | Cropped it to place puffin off center and to let us see a little more detail. Used the color fade tool to adjust the color/contrast. Ran it through one general pass of sharpen and cloned out one tall bit of vegetation on the right. Didn't have time but I would also have used the soften tool to deal with BG noise.
Cheers, Mish |
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Indonesia
Love Birds (2)
ninghapsari (25) |
adjust brightness and contrast | | Finland_in_Eton
(876) [2007-09-03 04:24:16] [1] | | Using Paint Shop Pro Photo XI, I did one pass through unsharp mask tool, at low settings, just to pick up some detail. Next I used the brightness/contrast 'levels' tool and accepted the default suggestion. Finally I used histogram adjustment which allows you to brighten via the gamma tool. |
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Sweden
The swan (2)
matspia (79) |
Cropped & adjust contrast/brightness | | Finland_in_Eton
(876) [2007-09-02 06:06:46] | Ran this through Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. Cropped the image down, mostly from the top to focus more closely on the swan. Used the 'color fade' tool set to 15 (a relatively low setting) to address the greenish tint. Next ran it through the brightness/contrast "levels" tool accepting the default (automatic) suggestion. For a little more depth I then used the 'clarify' tool at setting of 1.0. Finally I used the "sharpen tool" at a low setting and radius to pick out detail on the swan. I prefer this to using 'sharpen' which does a preset, non adjustable sharpening of the whole image. I find that on images that have already been resized this tends over sharpen with unpleasant results.
Cheers, Mish |
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Spain
STREPTOPELIA DECAOCTO (4)
persel_pac (134) |
Adjusted contrast/brightness levels | | Finland_in_Eton
(876) [2007-09-01 06:33:07] | | I used "unsharp mask" tool at low levels to remove "haze", then used the "clarify" tool to adjust the contrast/brightness and add a bit of depth. |
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Malaysia
What's up? (3)
manojtnair
![Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 18 W: 0 N: 23]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/s-n-s.gif) (161) |
cropped, contrast/brightness adjustment | | Finland_in_Eton
(876) [2007-08-11 07:00:10] [1] | Using Paint Shop Pro Photo XI, I first cropped it so the bird is a little less centered and not so 'lost' in the larger image.
Then used the 'color fade' tool to brighten the colors. After that I made some gamma adjustments using 'histogram adjusment'. Finally ran it through 'digital noise removal' tool and then picked out some of the detail that had been softened by noise removal by using the 'sharpen tool' set to a small radius and minimal setting. |
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India
pink beauty (24)
mayuresh
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 178 W: 0 N: 191]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-n-g.gif) (920) |
Adjusted contrast/brightness levels | | Finland_in_Eton
(876) [2007-07-16 07:47:46] [1] | | Using Paint Shop Pro Photo XI - clarify tool set to 1.0 and unsharp mask with settings at: Radius 30 - Strength 20 - Clipping 4. Using unsharp mask at these settings reduces 'hazy' look while only minimally sharpening. |
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Costa Rica
Listo para partir (4)
Calaca (151) |
Altered brightness/contrast | | Finland_in_Eton
(876) [2007-07-12 02:47:40] [1] | | Used colorfade tool first at a minimal setting for a more natural color, then adjusted the contrast and brightness levels. Used a very small setting on darken tool to pick up some of the washed out detail on the wings and branch. |
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United States
Bull Moose Eating (16)
writerscrawlz
(2961) |
Adjusted contrast/brightness levels | | Finland_in_Eton
(876) [2007-07-06 11:15:44] [1] | | Used the clarify tool to enhance the contrast and brightness. Then ran it through the sharpen tool, both in Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. |
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