Circular Logic » post processing http://atomicego.com/kevin Where logic goes round and round and round... oh, and I will post about photography, too! Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:50:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New filter that my giflriend found – Topaz Adjust. http://atomicego.com/kevin/2009/01/128/ http://atomicego.com/kevin/2009/01/128/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:26:12 +0000 Kevin http://atomicego.com/kevin/?p=128 My girlfriend pointed met to a new Photoshop plugin called Topaz Adjust. It can take a picture and process it very similar to HDR – High Dynamic Range. It took some pictures that I had taken that looked ok to good, and made them look quite a bit better.

Examples of Topaz Adjust:

Here is a good example. This picture, is the original:

Owyhee Mountains - Idaho

I then processed it with Topaz Adjust:

Sunshine over the Owyhees.

This is the HDR version of that picture:

HDR photo of the Owyhee Mountains

Another Example

This was the original:

River bend

Here it is processed with Topaz Adjust:

River bend - redone
]]> http://atomicego.com/kevin/2009/01/128/feed/ 3 Need to get better at post processing http://atomicego.com/kevin/2008/04/need-to-get-better-at-post-processing/ http://atomicego.com/kevin/2008/04/need-to-get-better-at-post-processing/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:07:17 +0000 Kevin http://atomicego.com/kevin/?p=11 I have been playing around with Elements for a while now, though, I STILL do not feel… comfortable with it. Sure, cropping is easy. As is red-eye reduction. The auto-fix for lighting is usually spot on. The problem is, are those are all the simple things. I have played around with some settings, and have a kind of cool looking picture of a stack of CDs. As well as a cool Black and white art looking thing of a picture of a tree. The panorama shot, from my first post, was also done in this program, but I had step-by-step instructions to follow, to access it.

Yesterday, I started doing watermarks on my pictures, since ultimately, I would like to sell some into stock photography. That was another thing I had to look up, though, it works almost the same, in paint.net and Elements. So, this leads me into my next topic. What applications do I have installed on my PC?

Right now, I have the following:

  • Photoshop Elements 6
  • GIMP
  • Paint.net
  • Neat Image Great for reducing noise in pictures
  • Picasa
  • Microsoft Picture Manager This may seem odd, but I like to use it to quickly open, and resize files. One gotcha with it, save the file you are editing, but DO NOT save over the original, which it prompts you to do, when you close it. I luckily had a backup of the picture I was working on, when I got hit by this Microsoft “feature”.Most of my tools were free, or came bundled with another product. Neat and Elements being the 2 I have paid for. There are a lot of neat, free tools out there, if you can find them.
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