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What will our Gourmet Group do with the photos?
Last weekend our gourmet group (a group of 4 couples– the guys are the chefs) went to one of the couple’s cabin in Spearfish Canyon, South Dakota. The theme of the meal we prepared on Saturday was Greek and it was, if I may so, outstanding and we had a great time. The floor of the canyon is 5000 feet above sea level so there was still a fair amount of snow around and the famous waterfall, Bridal Veil Falls, was frozen solid.  As usual, I am the one in the group that takes the most photos and I give a CD of edited photos to the other couples. Normally, I select the photos worth editing, crop to a 4×6 print format, color correct, and save the fixed photo. But then I remembered that Ron and Karlyn just bought a new super HDTV set and might enjoy viewing the photos in HDTV format. But, Dick and Hope will most likely want to get 4×6 prints made at Sam’s Club and I suspected Bill would just look at them his laptop and maybe send a few to their kids in Dallas. Or, he might pick one of the photos to create a “post card print” to put in the new 5×7 frame he and Mary Kay received as a hostess gift. So, what did I do

 Crop To Digital Camera 3×4 Format and Color Correct.
If you have previously visited my blog you know that I believe every photo needs to be cropped and color corrected. I decided to go through the photos, discard the bad ones, color correct  the remaining photos, and leave them in the 3×4 format, the aspect ratio of the digital camera.  If there was an obvious crop that should be done, such as removing someone’s elbow from the photo, I cropped it, however I used the 3×4 cropping format that is in the new version of  CorrectPhoto. Now when I give the photos to others they can crop to whatever format they desire. And, since they all have CorrectPhoto and know how to use it they can crop to whatever format they want. BTW, none of these guys would have the interest or patience to learn a complicated editing program.  Here is a set of photos showing several different cropping formats. 

Bridal Veil Falls, Before and After Color Correction, No Crop Crop to Digital Camera 3x4 Format Crop to 3x4 digital camera format

 Crop to 4×6 Format 

Crop to 4x6 print format Crop to 16x9 HDTV FormatCrop to HDTV 16x9 Format

Crop to 5×7 Portrait Format  Make a Post Card
And, if you want to finish the post card with some text it would look like this.

Bridal Veil Falls, 5x7 with text

 If you do not know how you or your friends will show the photos you take I suggest you Crop to the standard digital camera 3×4 format (or 4×3 if you have a vertical shot) and color correct. then you can crop to the desired format and create a set of photos for the specific use.

Wayne www.correctphoto.com

Photo Editing can be fun—if it is easy!

Yesterday is was 10 degrees below zero as I sat on our porch enjoying the warmth of the sun. Inside my wife’s colorful orchids where blooming and outside the snow was cold and white. I couldn’t resist taking a couple of photos with my trusty old Canon G5 in Auto Mode—actually I took about 20 shots.

Orchids & Snow-Photo Editing Can be Fun

And, if you have visited this blog before you know that I believe every digital photo can benefit from a little cropping and color correcting.  I, of course, used CorrectPhoto because it is easy and I have the thumbnail images available to quickly pick the photo I want to edit.  The OneClick color correction feature of CorrectPhoto makes color correction a snap.  But, if you have Photoshop Elements and know how to use it go ahead edit the photo with it.  You can add the OneClick color correction with iCorrect OneClick Plug-inand get the same quick color correction that is in CorrectPhoto. (continue reading…)

How White Is Your Dog?-Dickens is a Westie and He is White.

This is Dickens, a West Highland White Terrior (Westie) and he is white. “Well, ya! So What?”, you say. One of the more frustrating things about being in the “color” business is that most people, except for pro and semi-pro photographers, tend to be insensitive (how is that for being polically correct?) to color. They either don’t recognize that the color of their digital pictures is wrong or they just assume that the photos from their digital camera just aren’t as good as Kodak or Fuji film. In a way, that assumtion is correct, however, the color information is really there (unless the photo is over or under exposed) and it can be fixed. Here is a comparison of the original photo and the cropped and color corrected shot of Dickens.