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The purpose of the
program is to let you save a lot of time while editing your pictures
and photo shoots.
There are different kind of retouching tasks and as well different
steps to perform typically in each task.
The primary task in any picture correction however is to adjust the
brightness, contrast and colors of a picture so that it looks nicer.
We will start to learn how to do that in the shortest and easiest
way as possible.
First of all we should mention that before starting using the
program and doing any editing you have to make sure your monitor is
correctly
calibrated.
Then we need to mention the point from we all need to start from -
that is the picture file.
There are currently two kind of picture files that are most used in
digital photography and they are the RAW format and the JPEG format.
The RAW format is a proprietary format that belongs to the specific
digital camera manufacturer and it is the format that contains the
maximum amount of information captured by the digital camera at the
moment of the shoot. If you start from the RAW file, you will have
to choose the RAW import parameters to decode the picture content.
Many parameters are set automatically by the internal raw converter,
however you may decide to apply more or less high-lights recovery or
noise reduction and a few other parameters. After decoding the file,
you will get a start picture to begin to edit.
The JPEG format is still the most common format among digital
cameras, because it gives an immediate picture and a light-weighted
file. You don't have to set any parameters in order to read a jpeg
file. The jpeg is produced by your digital camera and therefore it
is optimized to be as much "good looking" as possible. OF course
this doesn't mean that jpeg pictures do not need adjustments or
retouch, they very often do. Generally speaking the quality you can
bring out a jpeg file is inferior to the quality you can bring out a
RAW file. But if the starting picture is not too bad (blown
high-lights or shadows) then you can get excellent results editing
the jpeg in Focus Photoeditor and there would be no visible
difference compared to editing a raw. |
Now let's go
directly to the task and consider the following picture:
As you can see and as shown in the histogram to the right, the
picture has a predominance of high-lights and shadows. The mid-tones
are not well developed. So our task is to bring out the mid-tones,
improve the contrast and reduce the high-lights and the shadows.
Pretty hard task? Not at all if you have Focus Photoeditor Quick-Fix
algorithm at hand.
Here is the result applying the Quick-Fix directly:
and the resulting histogram is now showing a better transition
between shadows mid-tones and high-lights. Also notice that the
contrast has been overall improved because now the histogram is
stretched to cover the whole scale between 0 and 255 tones.
But this result can be still improved using the Quick-fix wizard:
After pressing the "suggest" button, try to manually
increase the Fill Light amount in order to bring out more
light on the faces of the two girls.
Also I increased the back-light amount to bring out more
details in the high-lights. Adjust the other values at
taste.
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tutorial by "Focus
Photoeditor User"
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