correctmyphotos

Heather finds a new tool for photography kit!
When Heather, a fellow Rotarian, sent me some photos she took at a recent Rotary event I was somewhat surprise at the quality of the photos. I knew she had an expensive digital camera (better than mine) but the color was really dull and like most digital photos needed a bit of cropping. When I mentioned this to Heather she sort of shrugged and admitted that she was disappointed in the photo quality, but really didn’t know what to do about it.  When I asked her if she had photo editing software she shrugged and said no and admitted that she really didn’t have the patience or time to learn a complicated editing program. So, I told her about CorrectPhoto (surprised?).  She tried it and here is what she had to say about her experience.

“Next to my camera, CorrectPhoto is the most useful tool in my photography kit.”
Heather V., Apple Valley, MN writes about her first experience with CorrectPhoto.

“I’ve got a few semesters of college training under my belt, an expensive camera (thanks, Husband!) and plenty of ambition. But for some reason, my photos never seem to turn out quite right. They’re too blue-ish or blurry, not bright enough or too contrast-y. I’ve thought about purchasing special software to help correct my digital snapshots, but was always intimidated by their price and complexity. Until I found PictoColor’s CorrectPhoto, that is.

OneClick Color Correction
One of the easiest, yet most useful, aspects of CorrectPhoto is one-click color correction. All I have to do is find something in the picture that is black, white or gray and click on it – the rest of the photo automatically adjusts to that color scheme. Brilliant. Check out the photo of when I met my new puppy for the first time; it was taken indoors with no flash, so it was very yellow. In CorrectPhoto, I clicked on my white hoodie and the rest of the photo was “fixed” to take out the weird tones. The photo still isn’t great (the dog kept squirming!), but the color is much more accurate now.

Philly (dog) and Heather-Before/After OneClick Color

A Little Cropping Helps
It’s also easy to give photos a bit more “punch.” The photo of the bride and groom was taken from far away (Santa didn’t bring me a zoom lens this year), so lots of unnecessary stuff got in the frame. But I quickly cropped the picture to the right dimensions – CorrectPhoto has the most-used sizes pre-programmed – which made the photo much more exciting. After that, I pumped up the color saturation and adjusted the contrast to make the colors stand out even more. It took less than three minutes to take this from a so-so shot to a dramatic, frame-worthy memory.

Crop Photo to create a great photo

I’m impressed with CorrectPhoto. For someone like me – an amateur shutterbug who wants beautiful, true-to-life snapshots – it provides the right amount of options without being confusing. Next to my camera, it’s the most useful tool in my photography kit.”

-Heather V. Apple Valley,

Heather's photo-cropped and color corrected