I opened it in PhotoShop. First I cropped it in a smidge: I set my rectangular marquee tool at fixed aspect of 2 by 3 because that's the proportion of the original image, set where I wanted it to crop, and from the menu selected Image > crop. Then I opened the Levels dialog: Image > Adjustments > Levels, or Cmd-L (Ctrl-L on a PC) For these white shirt ones I just adjusted the RGB channel: I slid the middle input to about 1.35 and the white input (the one on the right) to about 181. Then I put the copyright on using a brush I made with the text.
Some of the other pics needed more color adjustment, but these mostly just needed lightening.
I never use the auto contrast or color, but I usually just eyeball it as I'm adjusting color. And if I have a bunch of pictures that all have about the same lighting (like the Friday concert) I'll record an action of the levels adjustment so I can just hit play on that to do the adjustment.
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Date: 2006-10-11 02:35 am (UTC)started out looking like this:
I opened it in PhotoShop.
First I cropped it in a smidge: I set my rectangular marquee tool at fixed aspect of 2 by 3 because that's the proportion of the original image, set where I wanted it to crop, and from the menu selected Image > crop.
Then I opened the Levels dialog: Image > Adjustments > Levels, or Cmd-L (Ctrl-L on a PC)
For these white shirt ones I just adjusted the RGB channel: I slid the middle input to about 1.35 and the white input (the one on the right) to about 181.
Then I put the copyright on using a brush I made with the text.
Some of the other pics needed more color adjustment, but these mostly just needed lightening.
I never use the auto contrast or color, but I usually just eyeball it as I'm adjusting color. And if I have a bunch of pictures that all have about the same lighting (like the Friday concert) I'll record an action of the levels adjustment so I can just hit play on that to do the adjustment.