{"id":775,"date":"2007-01-05T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/775"},"modified":"2013-11-28T00:48:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T00:48:37","slug":"image-editing-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/image-editing-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Editing software"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I've been playing around with my editing software today, and it's astonishing how much you can achieve from very poor originals. Of course, if I learned to expose the picture properly in the first place I wouldn't have to do this. <\/p>\n

<\/span> Before<\/span>
<\/span> After<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of that was done with adjusting levels. It's far from perfect, but at least I managed to retrieve something from the picture.<\/p>\n

This next one is more exotic. In the original, the background is a sludgy pale brown. It was nice, but didn't show the foliage off to its advantage. I wanted to sharpen the whole thing up. I used layers to create a template of the plant (which is untouched), and then created a new background with a colour gradient tool. The effect is of studio back-lighting, and although slightly extreme it brings a lot more life to the image. <\/p>\n

<\/span> Click to enlarge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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