{"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<p><!--more-->I&#39;ve been playing around with my editing software today, and it&#39;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&#39;t have to do this. <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/Words\/blog\/0401070816.JPG' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Before<\/span><br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/downs_edit_0401070816.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">After<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most of that was done with adjusting levels. It&#39;s far from perfect, but at least I managed to retrieve something from the picture.<\/p>\n<p>This next one is more exotic. In the original, the background is a sludgy pale brown. It was nice, but didn&#39;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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/cotoneaster_ps_garden_0401070770_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/cotoneaster_ps_garden_0401070770_b.jpg_thumb.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Click to enlarge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[139,40],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-image-editing","tag-photography","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}