Pyat endorses....

[pyat]

Picasa, Google's free image editing software, seems to work quite well. I'm very impressed.


Mostly, it's good at turning poorly exposed, dark, or unevenly lit photos into nice shots.


For example, this photo of anidada, from Geeksgiving 2006. Nothing wrong with it. It's not a very interesting shot, I fear, too dark and poorly composed.


However, a couple of clicks in Picasa substantially improve it!


Or, this recent photo of velvetpage, which is already quite good if I do say so, myself.


A bit brighter, a bit sharper, and a bit more colourful.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

*Nods*! Indeed!

[kfops.livejournal.com]

The trick often is not to adjust the brightness so much as the levels. Often the image has more colour information than you can see, it's just that it's smashed together at one end or the other of the spectrum. The software will often allow you to fiddle the levels to "stretch" things back.

The big thing is that Picasa has allowed you to take photos you weren't overly happy with and bring 'em back into Pyat goodness!