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[incysor]

Photoshop if I'm at home.

Different ones if I'm at work and messing with the images.

Dimin Image viewer mostly.

but I've also played with
Picasa
Shutterfly
Picperc

I should actually look around for some new ones. I've heard there are some other decent ones out there, but I haven't really spent any time looking.

B

 

[tvu]

Brian,

Maybe you should be the guest speaker at the next MARSH meeting to discuss and show techniques of saltwater photography and post processing(maybe bring a laptop).

Others can bring their cameras and learn to utilize them better or get tips to improve their photography skills.

 

[incysor]

Brian,

Maybe you should be the guest speaker at the next MARSH meeting to discuss and show techniques of saltwater photography and post processing(maybe bring a laptop).

Others can bring their cameras and learn to utilize them better or get tips to improve their photography skills.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I'd really be in WAY over my head with something like that. I've practiced enough to be able to say what I think are the main requirements for getting good aquarium shots. I can even probably help some folks get better shots based on my practice. But I simply don't have the experience/knowledge in the broader science/art of photography to be able to give a presentation about it.

I DO think a workshop would be fun...Especially if we could get a laptop, and multi-card reader so that we could shoot pics, and see what changing the settings did. Unfortunately I don't have a lapto or a multi card reader.
Although I'd buy a card reader for the purpose.

Depending on the number of people interested it might be easier to do this at someone's house rather than ADG, or one of the stores.

How many people would be intersted in doing something like this?

B

 

[boudster]

interested

I'd be interested.....hey, could you post a before and after picture (before editing and after editing) of a couple of your pics?....I'd like to see how the pics look without any editing. (Except size reduction of course)

 

[incysor]

Actually I did some last night with just that idea in mind.

Here ya go. First of each is just reduction. Second is color correction reduction sharpening.

B

 

[boudster]

Ok, I'm for sure buying that camera. So how long does it take to edit a typical picture? I use Macromedia Fireworks, which I assume should be able to do the same sort of editing that you do with Photoshop.

 

[incysor]

For my aquarium shots I've got the processing down so it doesn't really take that long...I do entire folders at once.

I'm using winXP.

I move all the pics from the camera/cards into a new folder on the hard drive. Then I click on the first one, and use the arrow keys to go from there. I delete all the ones that are blurry or too dark, too light etc...

Then I create two folders within the folder with the new pics titled resized, and resizedcolorcorrected. The first batch I run simply takes the full size images, copies and resizes them and saves them into the resized folder. The second batch takes the orginal images and autolevels the image, resizes it sharpens it, and saves the smaller image in the other folder with a slightly different name.

I then take all the images from one resized folder and move them into the other one. I then do the first thing I did again, and click on the first one. The first image will be the resized image with no color correction. The next image will be the same picture with color correction. It's easy to go through the whole folder rather quickly this way and delete whichever is the worse between the two.

Using this method I can process about 200 images from the camera in a couple hours. Then the more time consuming process of uploading them starts.

With your software I'm not sure how long it will take. If I were to do each image manually It would probably double my time. I did do it that way initially, and at first it was sort of cumbersome, but as you repeat it over and over you get faster at it. Hot-keys are a wonderful thing.

B