PHOTO TOOLBAR

 


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A great many of you use Paint Shop Pro for restoring and/or correcting photos. JASC now has included a Photo Toolbar for your convenience. This tutorial will show you some of the features of this toolbar.

Last updated May 27, 2003 10:13 AM

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This tutorial is written in and for PSP8 and assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP.

YOU WILL NEED:
JASC's PSP8 (30 day free trial) - You can get it HERE

The Photo Bar includes, from left to right, an Enhance Photo drop-down list (which we explore below), Barrel Distortion Correction, Fisheye Distortion Correction, Pincushion Distortion Correction, Fade Correction, Black & White Points, Manual Color Correction, Histogram Adjustment, Adjust HSL, JPEG Artifact Remover and Unsharp Mask.

The Black & White Points is new and allows you to correct the color of an image by specifying how to adjust at least one of a highlight color, a midtone color and a shadow color.

Histogram Adjustment now displays the histogram of both the original image and the adjusted image.

Below is an original photograph of my Grandmother Carr, after Black & White Points are selected and then using the histogram and cropping.

The Enhanced Photo Dropdown Menu is shown in the Screenshot below:

RED-EYE REMOVAL

Doing Volunteer work for Valley Cats, Inc, I take a lot of pictures of cats. It is inevitable that I get a lot of red-eye and am so pleased with the Red-eye removal tool in PSP. The example below is one of our many rescued cats, Handsome is a wonderful Himalyan. Using the default settings for Auto Animal Eye, I clicked on his Iris. You can see on the right panel how it corrected it.

Clicked on the other eye and voila - Handsome looks so much better ~smiles~. Handsome before Red-Eye Removal and after.

 

You may choose the One Step Photo Fix to automatically fix your photo's or do each step individually and using your own settings. I love the One Step Photo Fix and have a couple of examples below. The first is Larry before One Step and after One Step.

Living in Southern California, I manage to get over to Hollywood once in awhile ~smiles~. Larry got me a digital camera for Christmas and I took some pictures in Hollywood. Below is a picture of the new Kodak Theater where the Academy Awards are held. I was very disappointed with the shadow that I got and was thrilled when the One Step helped my photograph along. Below is the original, after One Step is applied and then I applied it one more time.

What you can do with V8, the Photo Toolbar and the One Step Photo Fix is worth the price of admission alone.

If you have any problems, comments or questions please do not hesitate to E-mail me.

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