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How can I make make my pictures look better? |
I own a Kodak CX-7500 camera, which has been a great camera. My pictures are very clear, but the colors are just sort of normal. It's sorta like the Claritin commercial, where the picture looks clear, until that clear cover thing is lifted and all of the colors appear brighter. Nothing is wrong with my camera; I just want to make my colors look brighter, more like the pictures of beaches in travel magazines. I don't know a lot about photography, but I think it probably has something to do with color saturation. Am I right? Anyways, are there settings I can change on my camera to make the colors look brighter, or are there programs I can use that will improve the color of pictures I have already taken? My camera doesn't take different lenses, so that won't work. Any suggestions? If you have Adobe Photoshop, a comon photo editing software for people who ahve digital cameras, upload the photo into Adobe. Then, hit levels at the top and click "auto levels" This may make the picture better or worse, depending on the picture. Usualy, it makes it better. If you like what you did to the picture, save it, but SAVE AS not just save If you just save, you overwrite the original, making no way to get it back. When you save as, type in the picture's old name (for example on a numbered camera IMG_12314). Save it as IMG_12314_edited or something. Good luck getting the most out of your digital camera! There are many different photo editing software that can do this for you, as well as do other cool tricks. Jester's right about trying "Auto Level," but you can also try adjusting them yourself. Or, look at saturation by hitting [CTRL]+[U] in Photoshop and its cousins. It doesn't take much to really make the colors pop and you can adjust them one-by-one if you prefer. This isn't the best way to show you this, but here's a photo of some apples I took on a rather bland day. The detail was there, but the color wasn't. I goosed it up a bit using saturation, as described. I went way beyond the natural colors, but it doesn't look too fake. I bumped up the red quite a bit with saturation AND levels as well as gave the whole thing some better green for the leaves. http://www1.snapfish.com/slideshow/album... Check out http://photography.hammocksurvivalguide.... for a lot of useful information covering most aspects of photography. |
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