HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH A PICTURE/PAINTING
Lay the picture on the floor, in a good natural light source, open door way, or window, with no shadows or reflection covering the picture.
Stand over the picture, look straight down, and square it up with your view finder. Take the photo.
Or
Place your picture straight on your easel. Have your easel vertical, not on an incline. Put your camera on a tripod and square up the photo in your view finder. Take the picture.
Transfer photo to your computer.
Crop it in the photo-editing software of your choice. There are some good free ones out there, if you care to google for them.
You can adjust the colour in your photo editing program.
For pencil drawings use the greyscale feature.
For paintings, use the histogram.
To straighten a crooked photo, and it wont be crooked, if you take the steps above, use the perspective distortion adjusting tool.
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One question JJ...what's a histogram? Don't have it in Picasa!!
ReplyDeleteIt is also called Curves, and Levels.
ReplyDeleteIt is similar to Clarify. It has more options so you can fine tune with it.
It will be in the photo-editing program I gave you, Adobe.. (Corel)
You mean Photoshop7, JJ?? It keeps on freezing, can't use it! :(
ReplyDeleteYou need a new computer woman.. How old is yours lol
ReplyDeleteNO, JJ! It's not my pc as I've just had it all upgraded and added a brand OEM software. Just can't get updates for the Photoshop!
ReplyDeleteIf it freezes, you may not have enough Ram?
ReplyDeleteUpdates are not that important, as long as you have the program properly installed.
Maybe you neeed to uninstall it and reinstall.
I know it works perfectly ok on my pc and you have exactly what I have, same cd.. :)