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Best Shortcuts to Perfect Color!-Photoshop Tips

admin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:02:43 +0000

Which iCorrect Software is Best for You? When this question is asked by customers we most often answer, “It depends.” Then we go on to inquire about the kinds of photos they take, what they do with the photos they take, and if the use Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom, or can’t stand to use any of them. Most often, in a couple of minutes we can steer them to the iCorrect software that is best for them. But, not everyone has the time to talk so we have put together some information that, hopefully, will answer the question.

PictoColor iCorrect Software Product Line

PictoColor’s iCorrect® family of color correction software are the Best Shortcuts to Perfect Color.

For photographers, from amateurs to professionals, the most difficult, time consuming, and frustrating challenges of digital photography is Making the Color Right.

Photoshop Plug-ins
iCorrect OneClick, iCorrect Portrait and iCorrect EditLab Pro are Plug-ins for Photoshop and Elements (Win and Mac). Each is designed for a specific purpose and many of our customers use more than one on a regular basis. Each of our products are built from very complex and sophisticated color management profile technology configured in a way that let us humans achieve great color for our digital photos without going through the “chase your tail” color correction tools of Photoshop or any other photo editor.

Stand Alone Applications
CorrectPhoto Editor is a Windows photo editor employing OneClick color technology. iCorrect EditLab ProApp with ProcessQ is a standalone application (Win and Mac) designed for high speed batch color correction and Streamlines Lightroom Color Workflow.

For detailed information to help you make a decision on which of our iCorrect products will help you the most click on the links below.

Information to help you decide which PictoColor software is best for you can be found at:
Best Shortcuts To Perfect Color

iCorrect-10 Years Making the Color Right

Wayne www.pictocolor.com, www.correctphoto.com

Better eBay Photos for Better eBay Sales-Edit Photos with Photoshop

admin — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:16:20 +0000

This is the third video in my series on Better eBay Photos for Better eBay Sales. This Photoshop tutorial describes how to easily edit photos for eBay listings in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. All you need to do for eBay photos is crop, color correct with iCorrect OneClick, and resize the photo for uploading to eBay.

You can find all the Better eBay Photos videos at www.correctphoto.com/ebayphoto.htm. For more information on iCorrect OneClick Color go to www.pictocolor.com/oneclick.htm.

Wayne www.correctphoto.com

Better eBay Photos for Better eBay Sales-Edit Photos, CorrectPhoto

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:25:22 +0000

This is the second video in my series on Better eBay Photos for Better eBay Sales.

For more information on CorrectPhoto Editor for editing eBay photos go to www.correctphoto.com

Wayne

Create Greeting Cards in Minutes with CorrectPhoto and ImageTitler

admin — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:24:16 +0000

Seasons Greetings From PictoColor

Creating holiday greeting cards is easy and fast with CorrectPhoto and ImageTitler. Yesterday, we woke up to 10 inches of new fluffy snow in Burnsville, MN—a perfect time to take a photo and create a greeting card. After transferring the photo to my computer I used CorrectPhoto Editor to crop and color correct it and then added the greeting text with ImageTitler. Here is a step-by-step tutorial you can follow to create your own greeting cards.

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 3×4 cropping format. I chose not to center the ornament so I could add the greeting on the left side of the photo. Using the OneClick color correction feature I clicked on the white and I was done.

CorrectPhoto Editor is an easy way to crop and color correct photos

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 Text and Titles to Photos with ImageTitler

After opening ImageTitler I selected the edited ornament photo and typed in the text I wanted. I then adjusted the text size and moved the text to the location I wanted using the arrow buttons. I then selected the type fonts from the pull down menu to see which one I liked best. After quickly going through the list of 12 available fonts I settled on Century with the Bold and Italics option. The whole process only took a couple of minutes and I was finished with our new greeting card. The quality of the text on the photo is really sharp and crisp and will print quite nicely or used on our websites.

Be Creative
My friend Dick and his wife Joan often send a photo of themselves with their grandchildren. Dick is the software developer that created PictoColor’s CorrectPhoto and ImageTitler and this year he used both to add a creative touch to their annual greeting photo card. The front of the card is the color photo and on the back he created a second version of the photo in Black & White with CorrectPhoto’s OneClick B&W feature and employed a creative use of ImageTitler to identify the ages and parents names to each of the grandchildren. Granted, it did require multiple passes with ImageTitler to add all of the names, but it was still quite fast and easy. And, with the high quality jpeg compression built into ImageTitler the quality of the B&W photo was still quite good.

Be Creative with CorrectPhoto and ImageTitler

Take the time to create your own greeting card.
If you plan to send a photo greeting card or including a photo with your card I suggest you take a few minutes editing and titling the photo. If you are like us you display the cards and photos you receive during the holidays. Most of the photos end up on our refrigerator door and are seen by our holiday guests. Quite often someone will ask, “Who is this?” So, why not add your name to the photo and answer the question before it is asked? Also, most of the photos tend to be dull and lifeless because, a common characteristic of digital camera photos. As I have discussed many times that is a problem that is easy to fix. It is simple and fast to create a photo greeting card you will be proud to send. All it takes is a little time and the right tools.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Wayne www.correctphoto.com

When Lightning Strikes! Take an iPhone Photo.

admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:09:51 +0000

But, Fix the Color Before You Send It.
Dave B., a friend of mine, was in Washington DC this summer and took a stunning photo of lightning striking a building near the US Capital with his iPhone camera. It is a great photo and an example of being at the right place at the right time. And, it is a picture worth sharing with friends. When it appeared in my email inbox I couldn’t resist seeing what OneClick Color technology would do to improve it. Here is the before and after comparison using OneClick to remove the magenta color cast increasing the brightness in the shadows.

Picture on Right was color corrected with iCorrect OneClick iPhone App

Fix the color of iPhone photos before sending with iCorrect OneClick iPhone App
If Dave had iCorrect OneClick iPhone App on his iPhone he could have fixed the color before he sent the picture to his friends. And, it would have only taken a few extra seconds.

Freshair Software developed iCorrect OneClick iPhone App using PictoColor’s OneClick Color Technology. For more information go to http://www.freshairsoftware.com/iPhoneApplications/iCorrect/index.html

Creating a Sepia tone photo with OneClick
iCorrect OneClick technology is also available in iCorrect OneClick Plug-in for Photoshop and Elements and in CorrectPhoto Editor. One of the features of OneClick is the ability to create stunning Black and White and Sepia tone photos with one click of the mouse. Here is a sepia rendition of the lightning photo. The first thought that popped into my mind when I saw the photo was that maybe God was sending a message to Washington. But, what was he saying? I added the title using ImageTitler.

Create Sepia tone photo with OneClick-Add Title with ImageTitler

Most Photos can be improved with OneClick.
The point of this post is to reiterate the fact that most photos can and should be improved before sending them to your friends or uploading to Facebook. And, it is easy to do if you have an iPhone with iCorrect OneClick App or Photoshop Elements with iCorrect OneClick plug-in or CorrectPhoto with OneClick technology. I often go one step further and add a title or caption to the photo.

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