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Kathryn’s New Facebook Profile Photo was Dull and Lifeless
My granddaughter, Kathryn, uploaded a new Facebook profile photo the other day. It was a really good picture of her, but it didn’t do justice to her vibrance and beauty. So, I can’t resist giving her a bit of grandfatherly about the photos she posts. Fix the color before you upload the photo. Actually, she knows better. She has been around me long enough and has seen the wonders of our OneClick color technology to know how easy it is to make the color right. But, for some reason, she took the same shortcut most of us do in uploading photos or sending them to friends. We don’t take the time to make them look good even though it only takes a few seconds to do so.

iCorrect OneClick Color Technology Make the Color Right with one Click

CorrectPhoto with OneClick Color.
The CorrectPhoto screen shot below shows the before and after color of Kathryn’s profile photo.  To fix the color all that was necessary was to position the cursor over a white area in the photo and click. I chose the little white area of the blouse under the jacket because I was sure it was white. That was all that was necessary.  The longest part of the process was the time it took to open CorrectPhoto and select the photo to be corrected.

CorrectPhoto with OneClick Color Make color correction easy

Photoshop Elements with iCorrect OneClick Plug-in.
If you have Photoshop or Elements you can get the OneClick technology as a plug-in and achieve the same fast result.

iCorrect OneClick is available as Photoshop Plug-in

iCorrect OneClick Color iPhone App 

iCorrect OneClick iPhone App is available at the App Store

If you have an Apple iPhone you can fix the color on the iPhone before sending or uploading the photos.  The new iCorrect OneClick Color App for the iPhone is available in the Apple App store. Simply download the app and use it to launch the iPhone camera, take the photo, correct the color by touching an  area on the photo that is gray, white or back, and then upload it to Facebook.

iCorrect OneClick iPhone App

iPhone users can go directly to the App store to get iCorrect OneClick Color or go to http://www.freshairsoftware.com/iPhoneApplications/iCorrect/index.html  for more information.

Be Proud of your Photos
Why not take a few moments to fix the color and be proud of the photos you share with others. You will be glad you did. Let’s hope Kathryn will listen to her Opah (that’s me) and Make the Color Right before posting on Facebook. I will be watching.

Here is another post on uploading Facebook photos you can be proud of. http://www.correctmyphotos.com/2010/05/05/are-you-proud-of-your-facebook-photos/

Wayne www.correctphoto.com, www.oneclickcolor.com

Most iPhone photos are a bit dull and lifeless. FreshAir Software has developed iCorrect OneClick iPhone App so all of your iPhone pictures will look good before you send them to your friends or post on Facebook. iCorrect OneClick iPhone is based on PictoColor’s award winning OneClick color technology that FreshAir licensed from PictoColor along with the iCorrect trademark. If you have an iPhone and take photos you will want to add this app to your iPhone. You can find out more about iCorrect OneClick iPhone and other products with OneClick color at www.oneclickcolor.com.

iCorrect OneClick iPhone Makes iPhone Photos Come Alive

Why not turn your average snapshots into great photos?  All it takes is a little photo editing.  Here is a video promoting PictoColor’s CorrectPhoto Editor that includes some excellent examples of what cropping and color correction can do to make your mediocre photos outstanding.

You can find out more about photo editing and how easy it is at www.correctphoto.com.

Wayne,  www.correctphoto.com

Merry Christmas Greeting

Earlier this week we woke up to 7 inches of new snow in Burnsville, MN. This was our first real snow this winter and while it created a miserable commute for many it certainly help put us in the holiday mood. And, of course, I couldn’t resist taking a few photos of our house which I recently decorated for the season and creating a greeting card. I wrote about creating greeting cards a couple of weeks ago so I won’t go into detail in this post. Of course I used CorrectPhoto and ImageTitler to quickly edit the photo and add the text. Here is another card using a different shot of the house.

Christmas card greeting created with CorrectPhoto and ImageTitler

 As I have said many times, virtually all digital photos need to be cropped, color corrected and this is particularly true of photos you might want to use for a greeting card.  The above greeting card examples are no exception.  Both need to be cropped and color corrected and here is the before and after of the above house photo. Note how dull and lifeless the original photo is. I took the photos on a cloudy morning and the color is typical of snow photos taken under those conditions. But, as you can see, they can be easily turned into a good looking photo with a photo editor like CorrectPhoto or Photoshop Elements.

House photo was cropped and color corrected with CorrectPhoto

The greeting text was added with ImageTitler.

Add greeting text to photo with ImageTitler

 Why not use one of your photos to create a unique greeting card to send to your friends this holiday season. It is easy and fun to do and anyone can do it.

I hope you have a wonderful holiday season.

Wayne www.correctphoto.com

Happy Holidays from Dickens
You can create your own holiday greeting cards in a few short minutes. Well, maybe we’ll start the timer after you decide on the photo you want to use. That might take a bit longer. For this example I chose a photo I took of Dickens last Christmas wearing his Santa outfit. (He really wasn’t crazy about wearing it, but was a good sport about it.)

Create your own greeting card-Dicken's had some help creating his

 Step 1-Edit the photo
As I have said many times, every photo needs to be cropped and color corrected and this shot is no exception. I used CorrectPhoto to crop the photo using the 4×6 cropping format. I chose not to center Dickens so I could add the greeting on the right side of the photo. Using the OneClick color correction feature I clicked on the white portion of his hat and I was done.

Crop and color correct the photo-I used CorrectPhoto Editor

Step 2-Add Greeting Text to Photo
To add the text I used PictoColor’s ImageTitler because it is so simple (I still have difficulty using Photoshop Elements to add text to photos and it takes too long.)

Add Titles and Text to Photos with ImageTitler by PictoColor

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