There may well be times, such as How To Change The Sky Using Photoshop Elements, when you want to manipulate the photo to give it something that it was previously lacking. I personally didn’t see the need for manipulating photos until I tried to submit photos to Dreamstime, a stock photo site that has great potential for earning the successful photographer money. My post Still Not Good Enough For DreamsTime showed just one example of how a photo can be enhanced.
Even so I reckon there may be many out there who still do not see the sense in manipulating photos preferring to leave them in their natural state. Truth be told there are probably many photos in your collection, or that you may take in future photo shoots, that could do with a little enhancement. This post is going to show you just one example of when this could be necessary. Let’s look at the original photo that I took while I was in LA.
Luckily for me I took my Lowepro Slingshot 200 All Weather Backpack
This next photo is the one I enhanced using an older version of ACD Systems ACDCD70860WI Pro Photo Manager 3.0 Camera Software
I then used PhotoShop Elements 8, the new version being Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 & Premiere Elements 9 (Win/Mac)
The first enhancement was done with one click of the mouse. The second one, using photoshop took three clicks but I personally think it gave a better result. What do you think?
One other thing, the problem with a lot of the software you get these days is that they usually don ‘t come with a manual which is why I recommend Photoshop Elements 9: The Missing Manual
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I’ll eventually get Photoshop… right now Lightroom is doing a great job though. Hadn’t heard of the other program before though – will check it out!
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Hi Kristi, I’ve never heard of Lightroom? My old version of ACDSee, apart from allowing me to enhance my photos also acts as a great photo viewer and does many other things.
BTW, you never did say which of the two you liked better?
Thanks for the tutorial and descriptive images. I was and am still using Corel Draw currently and was amazed at capabilities of ACDsee and Photoshop after effect. Thought that ACDsee is for picture browsing, guess I was wrong. Just luv Internets, we got learn and know new things everyday. Nicely written and appreciated it.
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Never heard of ACDSee. Besides the electrical one, I only know one other that sounds like it – the rock band ACDC. :)
Based on the above before and after pics, I guess you adjusted the contrast in the image. I think I’ll take a look at what ACDSee can do. I only have photoshop which I use when editting my jpeg format photos. Usually however, I shot in RAW, and thus depend on Canon’s DPP software to make it look good. As to lightroom, the latest version has a feature which eliminates noise pretty nicely.
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Lightroom is the best tool after you have used photoshop to enhance your photos. The work process is so easy and fast just what a typical sunday photographer like me needs.
But if you are good enough and know what you are doing you can achieve the same with tools like paint.net.
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This is really impressive. Thanks for the tip. I’m downloading a trial of photoshop lightroom right now :)
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ACDsee good software for photo view
It does a lot more than that James.
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The amount of improvement between the first and second photo is amazing – particularly as it is an automated process. Would you use that software for all of your photos or only if the images is visibly poor in the initial photo when it comes straight out of the camera?
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I actually do use it on most of my photos just to see if there is an improvement.
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Impressive article, I always go through photoshop for editing or manipulating of photos. I never heard about the photoshop lightroom but after reading your article i’ll definitely try …
Interesting. I remember using Acdsee like 10 years ago for picture viewing only. Looks like this software has improved a lot. I’ll be playing with it a bit.
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I always prefer lightroom over photoshop. Never heard of ACDsee, however I’ll give a try… Thanks!
You can do amazing work with photo manipulation. I read many photoediting blogs and get great ideas from those. The only thing is bothering are those high fees on adobe products and all those tips are for the professional versions and not th econsumer models.
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Looking at the 1st photo makes one think that the Los Angeles smog must have been especially thick the day you snapped it…
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Photoshop is like a blessing to all photographers. Even with a not so great photo, they can become awesome with a little help from the best program in the world.
Photoshop can really do miracles. Photoshop can change an elephant into a tiger, Elvis Presley to Arnold Schwarzennegger, a flower into a tree and many other things. A lot of paparazzi use Photoshop to invent ‘news’ and incriminatory photographies of celebrities.
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Yeah Amit, it’s amazing what can be done with photoshop. Personally I only use it to enhance my photos like the one I did in this post.
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I like the polished version of the pic created using using Adobe. The foggy effect of the picture remains there but obviously much clearer than the original one. With the 1st revised picture, I think it looks more darker that I can hardly recognized the trees from afar view. Last image has more balanced elements.
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That’s why I tried more than one program, because everyone has different viewpoints.
I say it’s worth the 2 more clicks :)
You’re the first i see using ACD for photo enhancing, is this something widespread or did you just happened to have a license around the house?
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I’ve always had it and I always used it until I purchased photoshop.
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Hey, nice photo. I have never used photoshop. Instead I use Microsoft Digital Image Software. I am not sure if this is even sold anymore, but I love it.
Hey, as long as you have something to use Adam.
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