Originally posted by mikeo90 at 3-2-2011 23:21
select auto white balance (which I find sometime makes the images a bit harsh/life like. I prefer the slightly yellow colour)
I find that the Auto White Balance often makes hotel room photos look too blue, like the bottom photo here. Better result comes if you select any true white subject from the photo and use the White Balance Selector on it. For example the sheets on bed, a towel, or shirt. For lack of any of these in photo, I've sometimes had good success with the white in their eyeballs.
Originally posted by mikeo90 at 5-2-2011 11:27
Picassa will do colour correction and other fixes.
The
free Google Picasa was a very easy and fun editor. But noticed later that it has one major fault, that is a built in feature: it will apply its own automatic color corrections, exposure and setting to all images, and you cannot stop it from doing this. So you might have shot a perfectly good portrait of a girl where her face is properly exposed, but for example if the background happens to be bright, Picasa will balance the settings which makes her face dark and grey. It is irritating if an editor makes these kinds of tweaks to your photos, and you can't switch it off. So Picasa is a very simple editor for snapshots, but for dslr photo processing you'll want to use something else like
Lightroom (which is excellent).
Edit: More about Picasa and the auto-correction 'problem' from web explanations. That happens with RAW files, not with JPG. Picasa is not a 'real' RAW editor. It handles RAW by reading them up and immediately doing a default conversion to JPG on the fly, and shows that on the screen. While doing this RAW to JPG conversion, Picasa applies it's auto-corrections to make it's best guess at a photo it thinks it should look like. Which is not always what you had in mind when shooting. So if you shoot in RAW and want to see how the actual photo looks like that you took, and want to process it, you'll need to use a RAW editor and not Picasa. With a proper RAW editor like Lightroom you are working with the actual RAW file, and once you are done you export the photo as JPG. Picasa converts it to JPG in the beginning, and afterwards lets you do adjustments to that JPG.
Originally posted by pickyprick at 4-2-2011 14:00
Is there a button for something like 'auto noise reduction' in LR? That would be cool haha. Setting parameters can be a headache.
There is one
slider for noise reduction.
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