Professional Facebook Photos with Crop-N-Frame iPhone App
by admin on Apr.23, 2012, under crop photos, Facebook Photos, iPhone Apps
Crop-N-Frame iPhone App by Freshair Software, a development and marketing partner of PictoColor, is a great way to give your iPhone photos a professional touch before sharing on Facebook.
iPhone Crop-N-Frame photo compliments of Lynette Sheppard and Outdoor Photographer magazine
It’s so easy to use Crop’n'Frame to quickly take a photo, crop it to zoom into the best part of the photo, enhance it with a frame and caption, and then save it or share it via email or Facebook.
Create Professional looking photos with Crop-N-Frame iPhone App
Crop-N-Frame is great way to enhance your photos before uploading them to your favorite website or e-mailing them to your family and friends. Or take it along to the frame shop and use it to visualize how your artwork will look with different sizes and colors of frames and mats.
Use with iCorrect OneClick Color iPhone App
iCorrect OneClick iPhone App Make the Color Right with one Click
iCorrect OneClick Color is another iPhone App by Freshair Software. With a single click you can make the color right. Use it with Crop-N-Frame to get professional photos that are the right color.
Both Crop-N-Frame and iCorrect OneClick Color are available in the App store. For more detailed information go to http://www.freshairsoftware.com.
Wayne www.correctphoto.com, www.pictocolor.com
Can you get good color with Instagram?–I couldn’t!
by admin on Apr.12, 2012, under Facebook Photos, iPhone Apps, photo color
After reading about the $1B Facebook paid for Instagram I had to see what the phone app did. I downloaded the app to my Droid phone, signed up and proceeded to apply the Instagram “filters” to adjust the color to a photo in my phone gallery. I have to say I was not impressed. Admittedly, I am a bit sensitive about color and really don’t like “special effects” for the photos I share, but I simply could not get what I consider good color from any of the filters. And, to top it off when I tried to delete the edited photo (I did not want to share it on Facebook) I ended up deleting all the photos in my gallery. Probably my fault, but……. Fortunately, I had transferred the photos to my computer so all is not lost. I am sure the sharing and other features of Instagram are worthwhile and I am not questioning the wisdom of Facebook’s acquisition, but comparing the color correction/adjustment features to iCorrect OneClick I found that OneClick was a faster and easier way to Make the Color Right.
iCorrect OneClick color correction plug-in and iPhone APP
Here is the photo I took with my Droid (left) that I corrected with iCorrect OneClick (right) by simply clicking on the white area on my granddaughter’s sweatshirt.
Smartphone photo corrected with iCorrect OneClick comparison (click on image for larger view)
If you have an iPhone you are in luck–iCorrect OneClick Color iPhone App is available at the App Store
I used iCorrect OneClick Photoshop plug-in to correct the photo since iCorrect OneClick App is only available for the iPhone and not the Droid (I guess we should develop a OneClick app for Google and the Android). Here is a video which describes how iCorrect OneClick iPhone App will help you take and upload better photos to Facebook. You can buy iCorrect OneClick App in the App Store.
Maybe I just didn’t pick the right Instagram filter to get good color, but I did try most of them. And, maybe the pupose of the filters are to create special effects and not to Make the Color Right. In any event, I did find it easier and faster to correct the color using OneClick.
You can get iCorrect OneClick Color Plug-in FREE
PictoColor is offering iCorrect OneClick color correction Photoshop plug-in free by going to www.pictocolor.com/oneclick.htm and try it for your self.
Wayne www.pictocolor.com
Crop a Photo to Create a Great Shot!
by admin on Mar.15, 2012, under crop photos, photo color, Photo Techniques
Kingston's Beach Girls-Cropped and Color Corrected with CorrectPhoto (click on photo for larger image)
Cropping photos can turn a snap shot into a GreatShot
As I have written a few times in this blog, “Every snapshot needs two things to make it better: Cropping and Color Correction. Here is a great example using a photo taken by a customer of ours, Roger Kingston. Rodger lives in the Boston area and really takes outstanding photos. You can see examples of his work at http://www.rpkphoto.smugmug.com. He sent this photo as an example of color correction using PictoColor’s iCorrect Portrait Photoshop Plug-in and I mentioned it in a recent post on PictoColor’s icorrectcolor blog (http://www.icorrectcolor.com/2012/03/13/rodger-kingston-uses-icorrect-portrait-photoshop-plug-in/). After looking at the photo of the girls on Waikiki beach I couldn’t resist cropping the photo leaving on the airborn girls.(Rodger certainly timed the shot just right to catch them in the air.)
CorrectPhoto Edit (Crop 3x4 format, OneClick Color) Click on photo for larger view
I used CorrectPhoto to crop and correct the color with OneClick. I first color corrected the photo by click on the white bucket in the lower right and then adjusted the cropping frame around the girls and I was finished. This is the before and after view option in CorrectPhoto.
Waikiki Beach Girls-Compliments of Rodger Kingston
It really only takes a couple of minutes to create a great shot. I generally use CorrectPhoto because it is so easy and fast.
Wayne www.correctphoto.com
iCorrect Portrait Video Tutorial-How to fix skin tone color in Photoshop
by admin on Mar.09, 2012, under photo color, photoshop tips
iCorrect Portrait is a simple way to correct skin tones in portraits and people photos. It is a photoshop plug-in that works well in Photoshop or Elements. This new video shows the basics of making the color right with iCorrect Portrait.
For more information on iCorrect Portrait go to www.pictocolor.com/portrait.htm. You try it for yourself free by downloading the demo version.
Wayne www.pictocolor.com www.correctphoto.com
Learn Photo Techniques from Photo Contest Sites Like Shutterbugs.biz
by admin on Mar.08, 2012, under Favorite Photo Sites, Photo Techniques
Greetings,
As I mentioned in a previous, blog Photo Contest Sites are great places to learn photo tips and techniques from other photographers and view great photography. One of my favorites is, http://www.shutterbugs.biz. One of the benefits of Shutterbugs is seeing photos from all over the world. Click on the link and you can see photos from photographers from Australia, Germany, Wales, USA, etc. You can join Shutterbugs and enter your great photos in one of their contests.
Shutterbugs.biz is an international photo contest web site
Shutterbugs.biz is and Austrailian non-profit photo competition web site now in its 8th year. Shutterbugs provides the the international photo community a place where recognition is awarded for artistic and technical merit in “photo of the day” everyday. Shutterbugs.biz becan in 2003 and was purchased by Robyn Lakeman in 2007. The had merged with Digital Image Cafe contest site and when that site unfortunately closed last year Robyn picked up the pieces. PictoColor Corporation is a sponsor of Shutterbugs and provides a free copy of iCorrect OneClick Plug-in to one of the monthly contest winners. Check out the outstanding photography at http://www.shutterbugs.biz.
Wayne www.correctphoto.com, www.pictocolor.com
