.xmp files in photoshop

Do you keep these files?
Can I delete the bazillion .xmp files that are on my computer?
How can I stop them from ending up in my folders?

When I used elements, I could stop having them show up in the folder when I edited photos, but I can't seem to stop them in CS4....

Also, can't wait to see everyone favorite Christmas photos! It was a year ago, we were going full throttle in the Photographers' Workshop! and we haven't stopped since then!

Actions!

Let's talk a little bit about Photoshop Actions.....



First and foremost, do you use them?



the answer for me is 100% yes! I LOVE actions!



Secondly, what are your favorite actions to use and how to you use them?



Me? I have Pioneer Woman's FREE action sets and I love them! She's updated them recently, in case you didn't know that. There are a couple of additions to the sets and they actually work with CS4 a little better...

I also have Total Rad Actions - The Original but am thinking that I'd like to have the TRA2 set as well, someday!



Third, do you have favorite recipes for a series of actions that you LOVE and use on a regular basis?



This is where it gets tough for me. I'm "challenged" when it comes to Photoshop CS4, but I find it much easier for me to get around in than Photoshop Elements 6, which I had previously; that "organizer" that was in there....just bugged me and other things did too, but don't get me started....

I need to learn more about CS4 and don't even know where to begin with that endeavor; was actually looking into one of the Photoshop classes on Jessica Spragues website. But, I really need to learn more about curves and masking tools, etc. I guess this is a good place to start.



Last question, besides that outrageously expensive PHAUNT U photoshop class and the Kelby website, is there anywhere else that one can take on-line Photoshop courses? (the Kelby website is great, but I don't think I have time to do more with it than take one or two classes).

New Year's Resolution....Project??

I just read a blog post about starting a photography project for 2010. I thought this might be a fun thing for us to try (or maybe you guys already do something like this??). Perhaps it's a project to enhance your business, or focus on a tough subject, or to learn something new...or anything. We could post our progress (not necessarily the entire project) on this blog and create labels ("2010 Project-Val" or whatever) for keeping the projects organized. I had thought of attempting the 365 Day Challenge, but I think I'll try that one on my blog. The key word is try-haha! It might end up being a 52-Week Challenge instead.

What do you guys think? Are you up for a challenge or project??

Here's the original post (from photofocus.com) for more inspiration:

With 2010 just around the bend, it’s time to start thinking about a New Year’s Resolution. What a perfect time to start a photography project!

I am going to start a project – I will share more about that later – but for now, I want to encourage you to start one, and don’t think you can wait until January 1, 2010 to think about it. Start thinking and planning right now so that you’re ready to go New Year’s day.

But what sort of project you ask?

Here are some idea starters…

1. Projects based on the calendar

You could make a photograph a day, a photograph a week, a photograph on every other Tuesday, etc. These projects force you to adhere to a shooting schedule, which is something many photographers really need.

2. Projects based on the subject

You could decide to photograph objects, shapes, colors, people, places things, etc., all with a common theme.

3. Projects based on working with others

You could find a buddy, or two or 10 or 100. Consider teaming up with another photographer or group of photographers to complete a project as a team. This provides accountability and motivation for those who aren’t self-starters.

4. Projects based on the season

This is very similar to number one on the list but differs in that the project has a large time window, i.e., it’s based on the season. In summer you could decide to shoot nothing but beach balls for instance. You can vary this by shooting the same subject in different seasons.

5. Projects based on charity

Are there underprivileged or disadvantaged families in your area who need portraits? How about shooting for a local non-profit that needs a photographer but has no budget? Charity projects not only give you something to focus your camera on, they make what you do matter.

These are just a few ideas. Don’t get too caught up in the details. Just go for it. Do SOMETHING. The best way to get better at photography is to do more of it. The New Year’s project is the perfect spring board for just that.

Press Printed Cards

I just wanted to give you an update....I'd been talking with Sherri about where she prints photos and cards. She suggested Mpixpro.com
I've used WHCC (white house custom color) and have been happy, but since I'm not an official business, I don't have a tax id# and I'm charged sales tax, etc.
So, I signed up with Mpixpro and gave them a shot.
My cards turned out BEAUTIFUL!
I also ordered some prints and they are BEAUTIFUL!
I'm a convert from WHCC...
Also, I submitted my order at 3:30pm CT on Tuesday and my order was delivered by Fed Ex at 10:30 on Wednesday morning!
In the words of Sherri, they are AWESOMENESS!

Family Photos

Hey ladies,
I just received a link to our family photo gallery...
Let me know what you think...
thanks!

http://oliviawagnerphoto.smugmug.com/

choose "Emily and Louie"

Newborn Photos (part 2)

After my first pass through, this is the favorite so far....
here's my question, what' s the easiest way to get rid of the dark upper left corner without cropping? I know there is a way in Photoshop to copy the blanket, but I don't know how to do that.....
I like this one.

Bridget has a very mottled newborn complexion. I had to use pro-retouch on her whole body to remove the polka dots. This isn't the best shot of her, but I like it. How on earth do I get the black background to be solid black? Like Becky mentioned on the previous post, it's hard to get rid of the wrinkles, but it's impossible to NOT have wrinkles.

and in case you're wondering, it's really hard to shoot twins. I think I would have been ok with one, but 2 seriously is double trouble. They don't sleep at the same time, Bridget definitely has a very feisty personality. Richard is totally laid back and never got worked up or riled. Bridget was squirming and wiggling even when she slept.
They were older than the "ideal" newborn age, but I guess I figured since they were 5 weeks premature and they're 18 days old now, I would be ok. Definitely do this when they are younger than 14 days.
more to come.....


UPDATE: Here's the link to the gallery that I'm uploading them to... I'll add the unedited SOOC shots along with the edited. So far, they are all the edited ones.

advice + suggestions needed.

i need help.

i'm taking pictures for my cousin's wedding on 12.05. they have a bridal party of 20 (8 ladies, 8 guys, 2 ushers, a flowergirl, a ringbearer ... and a partridge in a pear tree)! i've shot weddings before, but cripe!

i will be taking shots of the entire bridal party indoors and out. i have used the 70-200 before, but didn't like it much. to heavy and i'm an unstable mess most of the time. i've used some other lenses, but am just curious in all your opinion. what wide lenses have you shot and liked? i'll have my 50mm, but i have to rent another lens (and probably a flash ... should just freaking buy one, but i HATE using it).

suggestions? advice? words of wisdom? i get so anxious when i shoot weddings. i will have a second shooter (my friend kim) which helps calm me down a bit - but i just need ... support! haha! i'm a freak show.

thanks ladies!
jenny

PW

These are our attempt at photos today. I'm not happy with anything about them....I had to hand off the camera when we got up to the front. Our photo with her are terrible!
Oh well, it was a fun day and everyone got a cute t-shirt from her. Oh and MM is just as handsome in person as he is in photos. He's an absolute gentleman and he's teaching his boys the same!
Her voice is very high pitched, not annoying. MM and the boys had a much bigger Okie accent than she did.

Newborn Photos

UPDATE:
If I take photos like these at the top of this page, I have them wear black long sleeve shirts, but is it post processing that makes any trace of the shirt disappear? I love this woman's photography (and she's a Canon girl! yeah!)

Oh and I'm sitting her reading this woman's blog and JACKPOT! she's got tons of shooting info out here. I'd highly recommend anyone who will be shooting newborns (Jenny) to dig in and read it with feeling.....check it out!

Hello Ladies,
I need some help from you.....
A good friend of mine just had new babies a couple of weeks ago, boy/girl red head twins. He asked if I could come to their house and take some photos of them.
I've not taken photos of newborns before....suggestions? what have you done? ideas for the shots? I've got a nice wicker laundrey basket and I'll dig up some blankets to put in, but that's as far as I've really gotten with the planning process.
Oh, and I am going to borrow my friends portable backdrop, a white and a black one.
The friends house has tons of clutter everywhere, so a backdrop will be necessary to keep the photos clean...
Anyhow, if you have ideas, suggestions..I'd really appreciate input!
Thanks.

Press Printed Cards

Have any of you ever ordered from WHCC?
I have to order some holiday cards and they need to be done somewhere that does press printed cards. As far as i can tell, only a pro place does that.

I'm NOT a pro.

I set up an account with WHCC a while back, but never used it....

is that ROES ordering system easy to use?

any ideas where I can get them printed other than at a pro lab?

Photoshop collages

Has anyone made their own collage in Photoshop?
I have an idea in my head of a collage that I want to make, but I have no clue how to do it.
It's a 20x20 print and it's got 16 square photos (4x4) on it. A few of the squares aren't actually photos, but color blocks that coordinate with the photos....
I have some nice white frames from IKEA that 20x20's will fit into. I thought it would be a fun way to display photos. My brother had a photo shoot done with his family and there's too many of the photos that I like to get them all...I thought a collage would be a great way to display them.
I have a whole wall in my dining room that we're going to cover with framed photos of family...

If you've come across a tutorial on how to do this or if you've actually done it, let me know. I found a website to buy collage templates from, but they are $80! I think I can make one, but don't know how...

Update:


Found this template online FREE!!! and gave it a try. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Here's a couple more that I found. This one is exactly what I was looking for....
it's from Design Aglow.
If you have a studio and want to display work, these make beautiful canvas wraps that are ready to hang. Also, the Design Aglow has some nice grungy templates as well.
I'd love this part of running my own business, but not the being a one gal show and have to struggle to meet deadlines on my own...I'd love the creative side of it.

Sports photography

I'm planning to go to my nephew's football game on Friday night....it will be at a very nice, well lit (big) stadium.
I'll bring the usual suspects in my camera bag and borrow my friends Canon 70-200mm 2.8 lens.
Any suggestions on settings? I've never shot sports before, inside or out....

My friend (who I'm borrowing the super nice lens from) sent me this:

Four Keys to Success
Do I have a definable subject?
Do I have the right light?
Can I control the foreground and background to make the most effective image?
Are the conditions around me working for me or against me?

Shoot thoughtfully
Slow down
Think about each shot
What effect do I want?
What feeling does the scene evoke?
Can I capture “it”?
Shoot a series of images
Find the interesting points of an image, can they stand alone?

Reviewing your Pictures
Is my image sharp?
Is my image well-exposed or exposed the way to convey my intention?
Does my image have a clearly definable subject?
Have I eliminated all distractions and unimportant details?
Is the subject in clear focus?
Does the image have a clear center of impact?
Have I created the illusion of depth?
Is my perspective the best for the most impact?
Have I used motion rendition to capture the most compelling photograph?
Is the image most successful as a vertical or horizontal composition?
Have I used color effectively for my photograph

Composing for Dynamic Results
Avoid the bull’s-eye syndrome
Consider the rule of thirds
Carefully observe the space surrounding the main subject
Watch out for merging lines with your subject and hot spots of clutter or distraction
Make your main point of interest stand out from the background
Move in close (fill the frame enough to convey your intentions)
Be aware of lines and curves within a composition (S and C curves add flare and grab attention)
Frame the shot
Include a size comparison or depth perception
Give it “air” when composing action shots
Odd is good

We already know most of this, but it's a good refresher!

Full moon!

Went out tonight to shoot a few photos of the full moon tonight and this is what I got:

MANUAL (can you even believe it???)
ISO 200
f/11
1/1000
300mm (cheap Sigma super telephoto)

I adjusted the exposure in Camera RAW and then sharpened and used boutwell's magic glasses. Otherwise, what you see is what I saw. Pretty cool. Thanks to "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson for giving a little help on what settings to use...then I tweaked to get a little better shot. I may like this Manual thing....not really.

more landscape photography

Wow, I had a lot more landscape photos than I thought that I had....but that trip to Kauai without NO KIDS really helped in that effort.
None of these photos were taken after taking Karen's class. I'm almost certain that all of them minus the full moon were taken in full auto (the dreaded green box).
I have no recollection how I managed to take the shot of the full moon. I do recall using a tripod and trying to figure out how to keep the shutter open longer... oh the memories of that self taught lesson make my head hurt!
Duluth Shipping Canal/Lake Superior
ISO 100
f/4
1/1250
70mm (Canon 24-105mmL)



Lake Superior @ Two Harbors
ISO 200
f/5.6
1/15
300mm (480 in 35mm)
(my lens is seriously the cheapest Sigma telephoto available! but it works)

Lake Superior @ Two Harbors


Random lighthouse, Kauai
ISO 400
f/29
1/500
35mm (Canon 17-35mm)


Waimea Canyon, Kauai
ISO 400
f/9
1/800
35mm (Canon 17-35mm)


Na'Pali Coast
ISO 100
f/11
1/100
17mm (Canon 17-35mm wide angle)


Queen's Bath, Kauai
ISO 100
f/4.5
1/800
35mm (Canon 17-35mm)

I can't wait to take my husband to Washington DC someday. He's much better at landscape photography than I am....

Landscape Photography

Ok -- Let's talk landscape photography. I think most of us usually take photos of people -- and mostly kids, family and friends. However, I am also really interested in landscape and architexture photography and I think it is kind of a different animal.

So I thought I'd share a few things I'd learned about landscape photography (and of course a few photos) and I would love to hear some tips from you guys -- oh yea and for you to share a few of your favorite landscape/architexture photos!

I've learned:

1) It is usually crucial to use a small aperature (usually F/11 or more)
2) It helps to have the sun BEHIND you when taking photos, although this isn't always necessary
3) Taking photos at the golden hour (1 hour after sunrise or 1 hour before sunset) helps a lot
4) Blue skies make for much better photos
5) Odd angles, especially with buildings can make for interesting photos.
6) Eliminating Distracting Backgrounds and extraneous people (clean photos) look MUCH better
7) It doesn't hurt to live in Washington, DC with some of the most beautiful buildings in the country and in San Diego, California with some of the most beautiful beaches in the country. :)

So. . . please share your beautiful landscape photos and tips!

Becky :)

HELP!

Yesterday was the Halloween party at my son's preschool. My husband took my camera along, hoping to get some decent shots.
This is what he came home with.....88 shots and not one good one in the bunch.
Help me out here, I'm trying to advise him with what he should have done differently, in preparation for their Thanksgiving and Christmas programs.



I don't even know where to begin....first, it is really light in there, I would have been in a lower ISO, maybe 800. Second, I would have not used my 50mm lens, I would have used the Tamron 28-75mm. He had the right idea with the aperture...
This is a situation, where I would have given it a shot at shooting in manual too.
He said that all his shots were within about 5 minutes....so he didn't want to mess around with settings. But clearly, you have to use your preview screen and make adjustments so you don't end up with nothing!
Back in June, I learned so much from the disaster I call my nephew's highschool graduation. I got only a handful of decent shots that night.
Anyhow, let me know what you would have done....we can't have this happen again!
Thanks, ladies!

blog header

can you guys each send me one photo, one of your favorites?
I'm going to make a nice blog header...I'm back into the swing of playing with that stuff again.....

Lovely photo

I don't know if you've seen this photo? but I think it is one of the most perfect, lovely photos that I have ever seen posted on Karen's blog....
I love everything about it. I went into that Exif viewer and checked out the settings...manual...go figure.

Exposure Value Computing (in the ages before the iphone)

Ok, so for those of you who DONT have an iphone & can't download the Photo Buddy Ap...

If you really really want to nerd it up - this is a great website for exposure information and a diagram of the exposures that work together for a situation.

It might make your brain hurt -- it makes mine hurt - so I pulled out the exposure calculator and made it into a PDF so I could print it nicely.

He has some flaky copy write stuff, so I can't post it directly.

Website: Fred Parker Ultimate Exposure Calculator

Oh, and I couldn't post w/o putting a picture up.

-Sherri

how would you have shot this?

I shot these two this afternoon, cloudy/overcast day. About 4pm in the afternoon.
I tried to catch some in manual and it really didn't go very well for me. So, I switched to my trusty aperture priority mode.
f/2.8 1/1000 and ISO800.
I now realize that I should have been at about ISO125 NOT 800! that would be from my previous attempts at manual yesterday. Same time of day, indoors in a bay window. I had to be at 800 to get a shot and it was horrible. UGH, I need to seriously practice this.

Side note: these are not SOOC, but I did minimal post processing. Just ("oh snap 10%, derilicte 15% boutwell magic glasses, 25%)

templates.

i'm curious about something ... a little off the beaten path here for a minute.

when photographers offer christmas cards, announcements, etc. they are always so cute. i've purchased a set from the lab i go through to work with their cards (for grads), and i've also had a friend design a couple for me (birth annoucements).

here's the deal though. are all these other photographers designing their own? is there a great spot to buy tempates to use for your clients? please help girls!
thanks!
jen

I have a brand spanking new computer at work and it sucks rocks!
I can't post a comment to blogger....
anyhow, check out this website:
http://www.simplicityphotography.com/design/
I know that Olivia, the photographer that I go to purchases A LOT of stuff from Angie....her cards are really nice. They're all WHCC compatible.

What Is A Gray Card? And How Do You Use It?

I had heard about gray cards over and over and I knew they were crucial to get the proper white balance (e.g. the proper color on your photos) but I had no idea how to use one. So, I went out and bought one and looked it up on the internet. After quite a bit of practice I've found that a gray card can be a GREAT tool for helping you get the proper color to your photos.

A gray card is exactly what it sounds like -- a gray colored piece of plastic, cardstock, paper, etc. that you can buy in a variety of prices from a camera store. The gray is calibrated to be the "perfect" gray color (this is a long, complicated story but has to do with being 18% gray which is what is the standard measure in photography). You just have to know it is a gray card.

So. . . what do you do with it? It helps you get the correct white balance, or correct color on your photos. I used to get TONS of photos that were really orange/yellowy in color, especially photos taken at night because I was using light bulbs which often create a orange/yellow tint to your photos. Gray cards can help with yellow/orange or any other color problems you might be having.

How do you use one? Ok -- it differs for each camera but in general you do the following:

1) You go to where you are going to take your photos (meaning you need to be in the same light)

2) You take a photo of the gray card filling up the ENTIRE frame of the photo with the gray card. (NOTE: you don't have to focus to take the photo -- just to get the gray filling the frame).

3) You go to the menu in your camera and look for "Custom WB" or "Custom White Balance". Select "Custom WB" and when you do it will ask you which photo you want to use. Choose the photo of the gray card.

4) Make sure your white balance setting or "WB" setting is on custom and you will be ready to go.

5) Take your photo and the color should now be good.

NOTE: Make sure that when you are done taking photos in that type of light, you reset your White Balance to auto-white balance so that you photos aren't a weird color. Or you can set a new custom white balance when you take your next set of photos in a different light. I hope this helps at least a little.

So. . . there's a little info. about gray cards. Do you use one? Do you like it? Do you find it helpful or not worth it?

Manual Mode

I am terrified of even attempting to shoot in manual mode......but I need to give it a shot!

Does anyone else suffer from the fear of MANUAL symdrome? and how does one get over it?

Full Manual Exposure: In this mode you select the aperture and the shutter speed from any combination of the above. Top dial selects shutter speed, rear dial selects aperture. Half-press the shutter release and the meter on the viewfinder status bar and top LCD will reflect the exposure level compared to the calculated ideal exposure, if it's outside of +/- 2EV the indicator bar will blink either + or -.

After reading your comments, I'll be heading back to my workshop manual and re-reading that part.....

Back-up plan, do you have one?

Becky's previous post talked about photo storage and backing up.
How about it we all just add to this post (edit it) with info on our photo storage method (to the madness).

1. on-line back up
2. external hard drives
3. burning to disks
4. other options (smugmug, scrapbookpictures.com, etc.)

Jenny:
here is Jenny's info from her comment:
"i do back all of my photo's up. however, right now my computer is at max capacity so all of my shots to date taken (from 2007) are on one external hard drive. i just filled that up and bought a new 1tb external hard drive. i need a second storage solution to back this up, and signed up for mozy. to date, it's not been working. i still have to call them and see what the issue is. anyone else have any ideas for online backup? i don't have the time or patience (or money) to burn everything to disc. i have never gone through folders of pictures and deleted the bad ones. i should, but again, no time at the moment.

maybe when i'm on maternity leave i can do all that - haha!

any advice on alternative storage would be fine by me. and i usually print things i want to either a) display around my home or b) give to relatives/friends. :)


Juli:
1. upload photos to my computer from card and immediately go through and delete anything blatantly obvious that needs to be deleted. sometimes, I will add a rating.
2. edit any images that I upload to my blog or to Facebook (resizing them to a small size).
3. a couple of days later, I go through the monthly folder with feeling....seeing if there is a story in any photos or any that pull at my heart. edit those and save as .jpg.
4. continue this through the month and then upload the final .jpg images to smugmug and scrapbookpictures.com for off site storage.
5. every couple days, I save from my laptop into my "photo" EHD and back up my raw images. I don't have it plugged in all the time as it is upstairs. But I can connect to it wireless, so that's what I do.
6. I tried Mozy to back up my computer everyday, but it didn't work for me. I don't burn anything to CD or DVD because they can be damaged, etc. plus, where am I going to store them?

I'm a scrapbooker (paper), just can't break into the digital era. I love the dimension of the paper stuff. Anyhow, I print EVERY photo that I upload to scrapbookpictures.com when they have their sale a couple times a year. I pick through them and use what I want to scrap and the rest go into a photo storage box for my kids to do what Karen does when they're a little older. My kids LOVE to look at the scrapbooks I've made so far (6 of them), they take them to school for show and tell... I do love to scrapbook.

I have no clue how photographers that shoot for a living back up and store their images. It makes my head hurt trying to come up with an organization process for that. As a professional, how long are you obligated to save the images? I know the photographer that I use will shoot 300+ images in a session, but she narrows our gallery down to 40-50 images to finally choose from. She does not save every image from every session. Not possible.

BECKY:

My process is very similar to Juli's. I am totally paranoid about losing stuff (especially since I've had 3 hard drives die -- and the first wasn't backed up including work.) Not good. Since then I have a whole process:

1) I upload all my photos onto my hard drive and review them and delete any that I don't like (I usually get rid of about 1/3rd to 1/2 of the stuff now)

2) I organize the photos. My photos are organized by:
a) year folders then
b) title of activity/person/date when they were
taken
c) inside the title folder is finished/edited pictures, raw pictures and pictures I don't intend to edit.

3) I then backup those photos from my hard drive onto an external hard drive. (although I need to get a new one of those).

4) I upload the photos onto one or two websites (I use kodakgallery.com sometimes and always scrapbookpictures.com)

5) My computer uses Mozy everyday as external backup and so within 24 hours my computer will also backup to Mozy. I'm sorry to hear that so many of you have had trouble with Mozy. I've been very happy with it although the initial upload took FOREVER -- more than 3 weeks. Now it is quick everyday.

6) I finally order prints of all the photos that I have uploaded/ didn't delete. They all go into date organized photo boxes and I use some of those photos to scrapbook. Some stay living in the boxes.

So. . . now you all know that I am crazy about photo storage. I think that makes 6 actual forms of storage.

What Do You Do With All Those Photos?

Well folks, bear with me because this is my first ever blog post! So -- I hope it works out properly.

As a photographer I have become inundated with photos. I went from taking 25 photos of a big event (like a wedding or birthday) to taking 200-1200 photos of an event. That quickly adds up to a LOT of photos. Most of my photos are still not memorable, but there are usually a handful of photos that I really like. But even when you are taking only a handful of good photos all the time, what do you do with them?

Well, my solution is usually scrapbooking. I'm a scrapbooker and have been for more than 20 years so fortunately my photos often find a home in my scrapbooks where people actually look at them. I do both digital and paper scrapbooking. I will also print my favorites and hang them in my house or change out the photos in the frames at home. Sometimes, I give my favorites away to the people I love. However, that still leaves a lot of photos with nowhere to go but my photo boxes or my hard drive. And that's ok too.



So. . . tell me what do you do, if anything, with all of your photos? Do they make their way into the printed world? the framed world? onto the internet? or do they just live at home on your hard drive?

And for some added inspiration, here are two of my scrapbook layouts. One is a digital layout and one is a paper layout. Thanks for reading this!

Becky :)

branding and logos...

ok...so this post isn't really about photography - in the sense of improving photos. but it's a question that's on my mind.

from what i've read and heard...to be more successful as a photographer you should brand yourself as a certain type of photographer - in a sense of your style of photography. that your logo should match your style. and the logo should also be consistant - not changing it up every few months/years.

so, i've played with differant things. and my issue is that i like change.

how do you pick ONE logo to stick with??? what if in 3 years (or 6months) you don't like it anymore?

here is my latest.


and if we want to critique the photo...my shutter speed wasn't high enough...my aperature wasn't either. i needed more light. (i'm seriously considering purchasing a flash and i really need to spend the money on reflectors)

Post Process & Retouching

What is your opinion on retouching? There are so many articles written about natural beauty and self image. I personally don't mind a little ~ uh, lift myself....

Plus, who really wants to look at a picture of themselves and think ughhhh...

Isn't makeup itself a form of retouching?

-Sherri

I'm testing the colorspace with these two photos. The first one was saved in CS4 with the "save for the web" function. It clearly corrected the color for posting to the web.
The second one is an ugly mess. I just resized the photo for posting to the blog and saved it as is.


Photo info:
AV
1/500 sec
f/1.8
iso 100
Canon 50mm

Sherri, thanks for the nerdy explanations of all this colorspace stuff. It's amazing!

Here's one with Sherri's suggestions using TRA ProRetouch...it works!