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Old 2011-11-03, 9:55am
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I have been going through the Dark room for help on getting better pictures, i like how pictures look like the background is all white, its just the object, i thought taking on white backgound but thats not it, i have photoshop elements 8 can anyone help with this picture? I think i also need more light on my tent to start with too.
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Old 2011-11-04, 2:37am
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What kind of camera do you have? If it has a setting for lighting, set it first for
" white balance" then select "incandescent."

In elements what fields are you using to tweak the main photo?

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PS I am using a NIkon P100 and have Elements 8
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Old 2011-11-04, 2:43am
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I have photoshop CS4. What I would do is go to levels. There are 3 eyedroppers and the one on the right is for setting the white point in the photo. Click it on the white background in your photo. Don't worry you can just cancel it if you don't like it. If it turns most of the background white, but there are a few areas that are still purple you can erase them with your eraser tool.

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Old 2011-11-04, 7:20am
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Oh man thats what i want, what is cs4 , is that a photo shop program, i am sure mine must have that feature, my camera is a cannon, rebel T1i i know it takes practice but im frustrated, i had the settings on tv with the aperture at f5 if that means any thing. but i think photo shop can cure alot? i really like what you did to it.
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Old 2011-11-04, 7:50am
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not sure if i did this right in my program i went to enhance-adjust color-replace color(this is where i saw 3 eye droppers) and a box where i clicked on the white. does that sound right? it may be a little more faded than how you did it.
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Oh man thats what i want, what is cs4 ...
Photoshop is the tool for professional image editors. The current version is CS 5. On Amazon CS 5 is listed at $639. The extended version for $915.
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Old 2011-11-04, 2:39pm
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not sure if i did this right in my program i went to enhance-adjust color-replace color(this is where i saw 3 eye droppers) and a box where i clicked on the white. does that sound right? it may be a little more faded than how you did it.
Yes, that's it. If you noticed a little graph in the levels window and little arrows underneath it. You can move those arrows around. I moved the one on the left to the right a smidge and then the one in the middle.
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Old 2011-11-04, 3:01pm
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Thank you so much, is your tutorial still available Kevan?, im sure it would be helpful. That cs4 progam is way to much for me right now. i will try to work with what i have. janice
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Old 2011-11-04, 5:47pm
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Janice, it's still available. I've had people who use Elements buy it and they tell me what is in the tut is stuff you can also do on Elements.

There is also a free program called Gimp that you can download off the internet that does everything Photoshop does. Lots of people here use it.
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