Sunday, April 27, 2008

Super-quick color fix in Photoshop

This is the most recent photoshop tip I learned.

Wedding shooters, if you need pleasing color that isn't too sterile or perfectly balanced, open your image and duplicate the Background layer. Open the Levels dialog, click on the middle (gray) eyedropper icon, and click a lighter part of the gown. The process overcorrects the color, but that's no problem: We have the equal-but-opposite colors in the underlying image. Reduce the Opacity until the color is pleasing for the bride.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Keynote is so cool

Q and I are working on our growing up MV that we want to play at our wedding reception. Keynote is way cooler than powerpoint. After doing some research online, most people use Power Director or Ulead for making simple music slideshows. They are both PC software that can't be used on Mac. We also found Final Cut, but it seems quite complicated. Finally, we both tried Keynote and we found it quite simple to use and flexible to customize each slide to make it more interesting. Hopefully, we will be able to finish this in time.