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Contrast and Sharp After the housecleaning, then we adjust the color, brightness and contrast of our photos. There are highly specialized ways of doing this in Photoshop, but for us amateurs the methods used are easy and effective. To adjust the color, we use the "adjust variations" window. This shows nine miniature versions of the photo with various color corrections so you can decide what you're after. Simply pick the one that looks best and click on it. Be sure to do this with all four of the options available; shadows, mid tones, highlights and saturation. Most times adding just a touch of one color or the other to the mid tones is all that is necessary. Then in the brightness/contrast window we'll darken, brighten, or add contrast as necessary. Usually just a little is enough; the scanning software typically gives us an image that is nearly right to begin with.
Final Formatting Last, we adjust the image size and save it. This is where you need to plan ahead. Are you planning to get a huge monitor sometime in the future? Then save the images as large as you have room for on your hard disk. (We usually save our photos at 72 dpi screen resolution [75 dpi for Windows] at a size of about 10x14 inches.) Do you expect to print the images on a high quality printer? If so, save them big and at high resolution.
Keep the original prints and you can always go back and scan them again if you haven't saved them in the format you'll need in the future. Of course if your dog gets hold of them and chews them up, you'll be glad you saved the computer images at the largest size and highest resolution possible. Have these tips been helpful to you? Share some of your own ideas with us from the comments page or with the email icon. By the way, if you would like to see a large size image of the sunset photograph on the previous page, click here.
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