snowqueen
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havent touched up in elements yet....whats the best way to enhance these photos????
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Fen
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Snowqueen,
I would really advise saving the files as JPEGs instead of GIF files.
GIFs are only 256 colours and will really limit what you can see in the photos.
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snowqueen
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I did notice that when i re sized them, dont know it did that? they are saved as jpeg on my computer? but will remember that for the future, thank you
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PM on it's way 
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snowqueen
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Thank you............
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Can we see the jPeg versions? Lisa.
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Can we see the jPeg versions? Lisa.
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snowqueen
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jpeg photos................
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PhilW
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If it was me I'd do something like my quick edit below.
that has:
1. A muliply layer
2. A soft light layer
3. A hue/sat layer: Master at -25 Blue at -40
This was literally a 5 second edit. If it had been a bigger file I'd probably have done some dodging and burning too.
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Edited by PhilW (05/07/2008 01:07)
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snowqueen
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So im not the only one up late!....understand hue and sat....but bit baffled by the rest? will have to open up elements, just starting to fiddle around with layers but havent really grasped it yet!!......thank you
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snowqueen
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Forget to say......i like what you've done with the photo, looks good.
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LargeFormat
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Good job Phil.
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PhilW
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So im not the only one up late!....understand hue and sat....but bit baffled by the rest? will have to open up elements, just starting to fiddle around with layers but havent really grasped it yet!!......thank you
I don't have Elements , but in photoshop there are tons of things you can do with layers. I imagine most are the same in Elements, but will have to wait for somone who knows both to confirm.
One of the usefull things about layers is the bend mode - this is what the new layer does to the old one. In photoshop there is a drop down menu where you can select the blend mode.
So what I have done here is to copy the image to 2 new layers (ctrl A, Ctrl J in photoshop to select all and copy to a new layer). I then set the blend mode of each to a) Multiply and b) Soft Light.
No I have no idea exactly what magic algorithms Adobe are using here, or why they are so mysteriously named but you can see what they do:
Multiply seems to act like an overall darkening of the image, but it also boosts the highlights a bit - It's like adding contrast, but looks subtly different.
Soft Light seems to boost saturation and add contrast in a slightly different way than Multiply in that it does not darken eveything to the same extent.
Once you have set the blend mode you can reduce the opacity of the layer to reduce the effect and get the look you want.
I use a ~25% Opacity Soft Light layer on most images as it seems to give them quite a boost. But be warned if you do this, then mess with curves/levels/dodge/burn/etc each will probably add more and more saturation. So a heavy desaturation at the end is needed to curb that.
Phil
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snowqueen
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Thank you.... I will give it a go! and post new photo (if i do it right!) thanks again for your help and advice
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