Amazing S40 picture

[Paige87621]

I don't know what is more amazing, that this creature has nested on my cousins FRONT PORCH (2 feet from their front door) in a wreath or that I got such a beautiful shot of it with my S40 today. I was leary of disturbing her but apparently she doesn't move since she is sitting on eggs right now.



Happy Easter!!
Paige

 

[Tony Lau #65171]

Cute little birdie! Hope you don't mind I fool around with the levels and stuffs... I think I should put it in retouching forum, but what the hell...



I love little animals...
Tony

I don't know what is more amazing, that this creature has nested on
my cousins FRONT PORCH (2 feet from their front door) in a wreath
or that I got such a beautiful shot of it with my S40 today. I was
leary of disturbing her but apparently she doesn't move since she
is sitting on eggs right now.

 

[Paige87621]

Hope you don't mind I fool around with the
levels and stuffs... I think I should put it in retouching forum,
but what the hell...

Oh, Tony, I don't mind at all!! I love all the help/advice I can get. I have PhotoShop Elements, but don't know too much about what I am doing.

Will you tell me what you did? Looks great!
Thanks!!

Paige

 

[Daniel Craig]

Good touching up. The original was a far cry from what I'd call a great picture--sorry but that's the truth.

 

[Greg Ottria]

Tony, great work. I too am learning about touching up photos from my G2. For now I just tweak the levels.

I love little animals...
Tony

I don't know what is more amazing, that this creature has nested on
my cousins FRONT PORCH (2 feet from their front door) in a wreath
or that I got such a beautiful shot of it with my S40 today. I was
leary of disturbing her but apparently she doesn't move since she
is sitting on eggs right now.

 

[Paige87621]

Good touching up. The original was a far cry from what I'd call a
great picture--sorry but that's the truth.

Gee, um uh... can you make any suggestions about what I could've done differently?
Paige

 

[Tony Lau #65171]

Here are the steps:

1. Open Image (duh )
2. Image-Adjust-Level or (Ctrl-L)

• Put the black arrow on the left end of the slopes @ 7
• Put the hollow arrow on the right side of slope @ 200

3. Image-Adjust-Contrast

• Added 5 to Contrast

4. Edge-Sharpen 8-bit Action by Fred Miranda, but since you can't run actions on PSE, just do a little Unsharpmask (Filter-Sharpen-Unsharp Mask), 100%, 1.0, 0 is a good setting to start with... play with it, you will love it...
5. Resize (duh..)
6. Save-As JPEG, Quality 8 (my usually setting for web use)

Have fun retouching... it can be addicting..
Tony

Hope you don't mind I fool around with the
levels and stuffs... I think I should put it in retouching forum,
but what the hell...

Oh, Tony, I don't mind at all!! I love all the help/advice I can
get. I have PhotoShop Elements, but don't know too much about what
I am doing.

Will you tell me what you did? Looks great!
Thanks!!

Paige

 

[Paige87621]

Good touching up. The original was a far cry from what I'd call a
great picture--sorry but that's the truth.

I really don't know what to say, other than I've only had the camera for about 45 days, I never so much as had a good point and shoot prior to this. While the picture might not have been vivid and vibrant it was very authentic. I didn't mean that it would win any awards, I just thought it was well focused and interesting.

Maybe a suggestion or two from you on what I could've done differently?
P