NemesisCBR
Boredest Member
I love photography so i attempt to photograph things. Photos dont always come out the way you want or think they should. Good thing theres post editing processes readily available to us but its not quite the enjoyable aspect of photographs. In this thread we can ask any questions about post editing, get and share advice, and discuss all related topics about making our photos look better. I'll start us off.
I like spending the time to go through pictures after a shoot and seeing what worked well and what didnt, what needs to be fixed and what to learn from it but when you take upwards of a few dozen to several hundreds of photos it can become redundant very fast. Edit times per photo range depending on how well you shot to begin with. The question i propose is for the those who have spent time editing. How do you decide what to change? How much do you slide the adjustment bars? How much sharpening? Its best that everyone understand first that this is a broad question but im hoping we can inject some depth to it in discussion.
For those that are learning, take your time and play with the adjustments, learn what they do and how they affect the photo. Different software can produce different results. For example i used Canon's digital photo professional software for the first time last nite briefly and though i resorted back to photoshop cs6 for the settings im used to, Canons program seemed to achieve sharpening without introducing noise like photoshop's raw editor does. I'll need to learn how to use it better of course but it was quicker to just use PS right off the bat for the moment. As anyone new(er) will tell you, its not easy to decide on what the settings should be. But while there is a perception for how its supposed to look, something you have to remember is, the bottom line, how do you want to present the photo?
Im gonna upload a couple examples from my recent set when i retrieve them from the laptop in a bit.
I like spending the time to go through pictures after a shoot and seeing what worked well and what didnt, what needs to be fixed and what to learn from it but when you take upwards of a few dozen to several hundreds of photos it can become redundant very fast. Edit times per photo range depending on how well you shot to begin with. The question i propose is for the those who have spent time editing. How do you decide what to change? How much do you slide the adjustment bars? How much sharpening? Its best that everyone understand first that this is a broad question but im hoping we can inject some depth to it in discussion.
For those that are learning, take your time and play with the adjustments, learn what they do and how they affect the photo. Different software can produce different results. For example i used Canon's digital photo professional software for the first time last nite briefly and though i resorted back to photoshop cs6 for the settings im used to, Canons program seemed to achieve sharpening without introducing noise like photoshop's raw editor does. I'll need to learn how to use it better of course but it was quicker to just use PS right off the bat for the moment. As anyone new(er) will tell you, its not easy to decide on what the settings should be. But while there is a perception for how its supposed to look, something you have to remember is, the bottom line, how do you want to present the photo?
Im gonna upload a couple examples from my recent set when i retrieve them from the laptop in a bit.
