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Test poll - Fix my picture

PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 5:02 am
by MichelB
This is a poll to test... polls!
And to be useful, we are a few to be interested in a weekly topic consisting in submitting a picture for fixing, correction etc. This could help us in setting up such a sub-forum or recurring topic.
Please vote!

Re: Test poll - Fix my picture

PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 6:38 am
by Tina_B
Good Idea MIchel I hope this all works.
Tina B

Re: Test poll - Fix my picture

PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 8:16 am
by tennie
Yes, I like the idea. Don't know anything about RAW files though.

Re: Test poll - Fix my picture

PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 8:29 am
by dondiego
Mitchel, this is a great idea. Is this is photorestauration which we don't have a thread for it here and we should. :thumbsup:

Re: Test poll - Fix my picture

PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 8:36 am
by squirrelflight
I would definitely be interested in this type of thread. Personally I find color and tonal corrections to be more difficult than just coveringit up with a bunch of layers! Then you can go with the whole 'I meant to do that' approach! :rotfl:

Re: Test poll - Fix my picture

PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 9:38 am
by suzib
I like the idea a lot, a weekly submission is good but it could also be open to any member posting at any time for their image to be fixed. You could just start a new thread say "fix my pic by ???" I think that way it would be more open to different types of fixes and not dependent on what was posted for the week.

Re: Test poll - Fix my picture

PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 9:46 am
by turtlespirit
I would LOVE this idea. I am always interested in how people would do better with my images or fix/correct.

Re: Test poll - Fix my picture

PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 11:45 am
by chas3stix
Great idea,Michel.
Chas

Re: Test poll - Fix my picture

PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 12:22 pm
by MichelB
dondiego wrote: Mitchel, this is a great idea. Is this is photorestauration which we don't have a thread for it here and we should. :thumbsup:

Yes, Don. Any type of pictures you want to salvage or enhance and you do not know what to do. I can think of:
- old photo restoration
- portrait retouch (not necessarily 'glam' retouch, corrective retouch for common defects...)
- Exposure, contrast problems
- color problems (white balance, color casts, oversaturation, clipped colors...)
- sharpening, haloes
- lens flare, defog...
- distortion, perspective, horizon straightening
Sometimes, the defect to be corrected will be obvious, other times you think something can be done, but you don't know what...
And I think this should be open to any time of editing software, not only Elements, because what is important is to determine which changes are necessary (common analysis for any software), and the tools to achieve this will be software dependent.

Re: Test poll - Fix my picture

PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 12:25 pm
by MichelB
suzib wrote: I like the idea a lot, a weekly submission is good but it could also be open to any member posting at any time for their image to be fixed. You could just start a new thread say "fix my pic by ???" I think that way it would be more open to different types of fixes and not dependent on what was posted for the week.

Absolutely, I had the same idea. Other suggestions from everybody please...