correctmyphotos

Sometimes you just have to see better color to know.
The other day our Rotary Club  cooked 250 hot dogs for the Burnsville Kids of Summer program’s final day, a project we have done for about 20years. Heather and I took a few photos of the event. When I got back to the office I edited a few with CorrectPhoto and sent them to Heather for our clubs website. She went back to her office and uploaded a few of my photos with a few of hers. (Heather is the editor of our club’s website.) Now Heather does have CorrectPhoto and loves it, however, she has it on her home computer and not on her office computer so she bypassed the photo editing step and uploaded uncorrected photos. (Sound familiar?) When I saw the photo gallery of the event I mentioned to my friend Bill and mentioned the fact that Heather hadn’t had time to color correct her photos. His comment was, “Only you would know that?” That is really not true, but it did get me to thinking about how does one really know the color is not right? I guess the reality is that most people just accept the color they get from their digital camera and don’t realize that the color could be better. So, do you think the color is right or okay in the following photo?

Is the Color Right? Look at the mustard bottle and the girls shirt.

Now compare it with this photo. Now, doesn’t the original photo look dull and lifeless compared with the color corrected one?

Look at the mustard bottle and the girl's shirt to see the difference in color

Do you need to see the photos side by side to tell the difference?

Compare the original on the left to the corrected photo on the right

Some time ago I showed my granddaughter a similar comparison and asked her to pick the best photo. After she selected the color corrected one I asked her why she selected it.  Her response was; “Duh, it looks real.” I guess that is the simple answer to knowing if the color is right.  It looks real.

Every time I show someoneOneClick color correction on one of their photos that they thought was okay I get the same reaction–”Wow!”  So, don’t assume the color of your digital photos is the right, because it probably isn’t. Fix it and see the difference.

Wayne
www.correctphoto.com