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Fix Photos Before you upload to Facebook
When Craig joined Facebook a few weeks ago he was surprised to find old classmates posting  class pictures on their pages. So, he dug out his elementary scrapbooks (his mother kept everything and gave him the books after he got married) and started scanning the class photos.  And, since we are in the color business he had to fix the scanned photo before he uploaded it to Facebook. The first grade class print was 36 years old so it was a bit faded and a little yellow and the scanned file was a little fuzzy. He could have used Photoshop to crop and color correct the picture with iCorrect OneClick plug-in, but he was in a hurry so he used CorrectPhoto.  Here is the photo he uploaded to Facebook. The original scanned photo is below the fix photo.

Craig's class photo-cropped, color corrected, resized with CorrectPhoto

Craig's class picture-original scan

Regardless of the photo editing program you use, Photoshop, Elements, or CorrectPhoto (these are the only editing programs that you have access to PictoColor’s OneClick Color technology) you should do three (maybe 4) editing steps.

1. Crop the photo. In this example a little cropping to eliminate some of the border area makes the photo somewhat larger and easier to see the faces.
2. Color Correct the photo. The easiest and, frankly, the best is OneClick color available in iCorrect OneClick plug-in for Photoshop or Elements or CorrectPhoto which has OneClick color built in.
3. (Optional) Sharpen the photo. This step is more important for a photo that was scanned with a desktop scanner. It is less important or necessary with a photo taken with a digital camera, particularly one with at least 5 MP.
4. Resize the photo before you upload. This is IMPORTANT. In general, most social websites limit the pixel count of the photo that can be displayed. When you upload a high resolution photo the site will automatically resize (or scale) it down.  In most cases, the scaling algorithm that is used is not very good. So, to ensure the best quality image use the resizing functions in either CorrectPhoto or Photoshop as they are much better.

The point of this post is to suggest that the photos you upload to your Facebook page are a reflection on you. So, take a few extra minutes and fix them so you can be proud of them. It is easy and fun to do. For more information on editing, cropping and rezising photos click on one of the Categories on the left of the home page of this blog.

Wayne www.correctphoto.com