You need to sharpen your picture since it is somewhat round from the start since the elements that capture the light is in deed round. If you are using a compact camera and you are moving to a DSLR your picture might look worse. This is because the compact might sharpen it in the camera and the DSLR give you the unsharpen truth.

Thus you got to know your editing as well as your photo skills improve. It is important that your editing skills also grow. Please note of this cause i seen many photos that could be better with some easy editing. You can learn the most basic people use to fail in.

Local contrast is actually sharpening only you have to change the radius so it sharpen the photo all over istead just where it finds edges. Use a radius about 40 with a websized photo and you get really stunning results. You may also try 30 or 50 an the end results is changing the image so you will not recognice it. Use this combined with layers and layer mask and you have a winner.

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I am experience alot of change to You tube since i last use it and you are able to do much more than before. You can make tips and certainly add textig to your videos and much more.

I think C2G is a wonderful tool that really adds to the picture though as well as mono-mixer it still feel like another filter and not an addition to the motor. I hope that the new version is different both to the graphic interface and the motor that drives it making it easier to do edits.

I think that Gimp still is ahead as the most powerful editor that you can get for free. Gimp has given at least me so much letting me be able to spend my money on hardware instead of software.

Being an amateur taking pictures 8-bit is more than enough and being 16-bit is merely an argument people make because they spent alot of money on their software. What i do wait for is adjusting layers so you can use same adjustment on different pictures. Now you do alot of same things over and over.

So what i want of a new Gimp is only adjustment layers so i can do same adjustment over and over again. Maybe some new graphical interface that make it easier to work. Even so i am very satisfied with how well this free software work and together with G’mic it is doing very well.

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I wanted some halo-effects on the picture and thus i wanted it to control the picture with strong contrast. If you take your time and play around with unsharp mask you can have some strange effects. It is vital that you know of local contrast since it is a useful tool.

Remember you also can do USM only on the light layer in LAB mode to have a sharper image that will not effect the coulor of the photo. Doing unsharp mask will effect the image in different ways making it somewhat darker and this you should know of.

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It is working with my camera that is an Olympus E-PL1 and taking in the Raw file so it is also bound to take your new camera. Be sure to check it out that your camera is avaible first.

You need a software program after you shot to convert it to BW. I have used Xnview to turn the Raw-file to jpg then i used monomixer in Gimp to turn the photo to BW. Shooting this way you still got the information of colour but you see the result in camera as BW. Do you have questions please comment.

This knowledge is a good tool while you are learning which photo is suitable for BW because you will see the result directly and you are able to make a color photo if you like.

Having more colour it fools the eye to notice it more. Don´t forget to add some sharpness to the picture. This will also making it slightly darker.

It is something that will make your photograph go from ordinary and lift them up to be better. Photo editing shall be so it improve your photography applied careful it adds to your photograph. Remember though to work on your photo skill. Since bad in means bad out.

Yesterday I saw that someone suggesting Ipernity to Wii interface. I think this would be very cool. Wii got also a sdcard reader and i need it to start reading my E-PL1 camera to. In the meantime i think it probably read the old Canon Powershot.

It is important to be so good on exposure, ISO and shutter speed to know your photo is not just some accident or purely luck. You will learn much by the process. Simply relying on luck you can hire a baboon taking your pictures. The editing is getting that good these days.

Try to learn your tools as good as you can. Know your camera and its lenses. You also have to know how to photo edit and make the most out of your pictures.

I’ve just started a Community on the web and you can be as active or how little you want active. It already have 232 members. You decide and if you want to share with grandma, or just to have it as backup. You can share your PDF, JPG or Word format, etc.. I can imagine that it can handle the most common rawformat, but there’s nothing I’ve tried. You can share the most part it is just to try. Free version is limited to 1000 pieces files and 200 megabytes per month so you can not share such large files. Starting with the Pro account, you can share your original files and also have infinite space per month.

Picasa program will also spread a lot of files, as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom does. It will become increasingly common that you support a specific software. We’ll see what Windows 7 has to offer because we can see that Microsoft has made concessions to the operating system and is no longer sealed to the use of the Internet Explorer as browser. You can not just pick any image for free. Check here if you want images for free !
What I said about Facebook is true and the same applies to Google. You can read their rights here . Learn what your rights are. You have special rights with Picasa. You decide if you accept it, but know at least what you accept. The same applies to Facebook, where you now may accept Facebook to use your pictures in ads.

If you want to be rights owner, use Ipernity . You can share anything. PDF, PDS, (photoshop) Word- or Mp3 files you decide on what basis you want to share and with whom. It has definitely improved conditions. You can if you are Pro users will also tell you share unlimited. Even as free you can share your Exif, which is how you took the picture. What you used to shutter speed or what camera you used.

Picasa Web service allows you to upload images, but you will be locked to Google, which owns Picasa. You will also be locked to Picasa if you use Blogger , which use their services and ways to insert pictures. All photos you add to Blogger is automatically added to Picasa Web Service and then lock your images in Google that may be their rights to your images.

Google supports open source , but it is only on the surface. Blogger is not open source, but one of their products. Picasa 3 itself is not open. Google controls everything. ‘Do not be evil “does not mean ‘Do not be Greedy’ something to think about. Something to think that Google owns you. You have no chance against the big.

You can read more of the Picasa software, but remember that you are using Google as your own the pictures. You can read about your rights. You know what you are getting into: a slideshow . Think about it and always read the terms of the service. You might as well get your own domain and take rights over your own images.

When you are shooting Raw you can see the picture as black/white and having the full information of color. It will be easier learning to see what really works as black/white when you actually can see the picture in the LCD.

Here i have turned the image around and showing both mirror-side at the same time. It might feel odd first but you actually get a new perspective on things. Be sure not to have anything in the picture that may give referens. Writings will be turned around and may look odd. So signs in the picture is a no no.

Nature photography is definitely working. You have to try yourself and you will get experience in time.