April 2011 Photo & Captions Comment Thread

[ConcinusMan]

You want to hear something really funny? The setting in GIMP to sharpen a fuzzy image is called "Unsharpen". makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

[infernalis]

weird, the button on Fireworks says "sharpen" and just under that "sharpen more"

I use it a lot.

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, GIMP does have a "sharpen" too, but all it does is make the pic look grainy. I looked in the help info in GIMP to see how to sharpen an image that is not quite in focus, and it says to use "unsharpen" I did use it on my entry. Had to to make it look halfway decent. It worked pretty well. "unsharpen" actually sharpened the photo. Crazy huh?

[infernalis]

that is crazy, fireworks will make it grainy if you use too much sharpen also.

[ConcinusMan]

Well sure, it will do that in any program. The thing is, it wasn't helping. It was only making it worse if I used sharpen at all. Unsharpen worked fine.

[RedSidedSPR]

Another problem with my pic is the red on him doesn't show up. Makes him less impressive. Stupid heat lamp always does that. The red shows up yellow.

[ConcinusMan]

That's simple. Set the camera's white balance setting to "incandescent" or else adjust the white balance manually. Either that, or use natural daylight or white florescent.

Still, I forgot the white balance setting and had a few come out yellow. It's easy enough to fix. Open in GIMP or other picture editor and manipulate the RGB (red green blue) or "hue" settings until it looks right, then save it.

[zooplan]

I would like to repeat:
Take your pictures outside, where the light is better and you´ll get better pictures.

[zooplan]

I can´t see the second entry

[Stefan-A]

Neither can I.