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williebetmore
Here is a quick fix to improve your digital photos. It will make you look like a pro in under 30 seconds!
Someone suggsted i should post it, so here it is.
Open your picture in photoshop or what ever your using.
Photoshop7 (can be had for free)
1: find curves-click and drag the line down until the pic is to your liking. you'll see how the pic lightens and darkens ect ect i just drag it down to take the white cast out of the photo. Simple curves version i know, but it works fine.
Then:
goto Filters-sharpen-unsharp mask
Set threshold to 1
radius to 0.1 pixels
amount to 500% to start
then under the photo preview window hit the + sign upto 400%
At this point you will move the Radius up to about 0.4 or so, more or less, depends on photo, see the preview photo blow out and become pixellated with noise ect ect ect. Move it around some to see what i'm talking about..back down the radius until its all gone, then go up one. On this org. photo i went 0.4 radius, way too much, you'll see. then i backed down to 0.3 radius. (wont need to move the radius to far)
Still too much, you'll see all the little pixel squares showing that your sharpening the noise ect in the photo.
This is a good point to fine tune........ adjust the amount slider a little down until the pic is the level of sharp you like. You can click the little check mark (preview) to see the differance from org. to the sharpend photo. There are hot keys to do this, but im not going there! KISS
First pic is the orginal
Second pic is done as above.
Unsharp is the last thing you ever do in photoshop
Once you do that curve/unsharp on your photos, you'll be amazed how much better they look.
let me know after you try it what ya think.
PHOTO By 3dDream
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Someone suggsted i should post it, so here it is.
Open your picture in photoshop or what ever your using.
Photoshop7 (can be had for free)
1: find curves-click and drag the line down until the pic is to your liking. you'll see how the pic lightens and darkens ect ect i just drag it down to take the white cast out of the photo. Simple curves version i know, but it works fine.
Then:
goto Filters-sharpen-unsharp mask
Set threshold to 1
radius to 0.1 pixels
amount to 500% to start
then under the photo preview window hit the + sign upto 400%
At this point you will move the Radius up to about 0.4 or so, more or less, depends on photo, see the preview photo blow out and become pixellated with noise ect ect ect. Move it around some to see what i'm talking about..back down the radius until its all gone, then go up one. On this org. photo i went 0.4 radius, way too much, you'll see. then i backed down to 0.3 radius. (wont need to move the radius to far)
Still too much, you'll see all the little pixel squares showing that your sharpening the noise ect in the photo.
This is a good point to fine tune........ adjust the amount slider a little down until the pic is the level of sharp you like. You can click the little check mark (preview) to see the differance from org. to the sharpend photo. There are hot keys to do this, but im not going there! KISS
First pic is the orginal
Second pic is done as above.
Unsharp is the last thing you ever do in photoshop
Once you do that curve/unsharp on your photos, you'll be amazed how much better they look.
let me know after you try it what ya think.
PHOTO By 3dDream
Before:
After: