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08/31/2005 05:02:18 AM · #1 |
| I am not completely familer with the rules of Basic editing. Im I allowed to change the overall color of the image, ie sepia? Am I allowed to (in photoshop elements) change the color using "Color Variations"? ie increase green, decrease red, darken, lighten etc. |
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08/31/2005 05:03:43 AM · #2 |
as long as it is done to the entire photo.
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08/31/2005 05:08:34 AM · #3 |
| In photoshop elements you can choose from certain things to adjust, ie midtones, shadows, highlights, saturation. Are you allowed to do that if you do it to the entire picture? |
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08/31/2005 06:01:02 AM · #4 |
Absolutely. You can basically do anything that doesn't require you to select or manipulate a certain isolated portion of the image (no selection tools, no blur tool, no dodge & burn, etc), make a new layer, or use a filter.
There are some filters you can use (sharpen and gaussian blur come to mind) and some layers you can use (adjustment layers that contain no pixels) but if you follow the above you'll be pretty safe.
R.
Message edited by author 2005-08-31 10:02:10.
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08/31/2005 01:33:50 PM · #5 |
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09/04/2005 10:49:42 PM · #6 |
| Question about the submission rules: Being new I know I have to have the date stamp on my pictures.. but to submit them, HOW do I get the date off without cloning various elements of the photo? IE: I have a picture for the Branch challenge.. but in the right hand corner there is a big yellow date... I can clone some of the rocks to cover it up..but beyond that.. how do I do this.. the rules said no cloning??? *gah* .. lol so much to learn.. any help would be appreciated |
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09/04/2005 10:53:27 PM · #7 |
The "date stamp" is not the visible print -- it refers to the info that the camera saves in a format called EXIF, within the image file. When we look at that data, we can tell when it was taken and when it was modified.
Do not imprint a date on your image (unless you needed it as a design element), and then make sure it's only done in-camera, not added later. |
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09/04/2005 10:54:19 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Shecoya:
Question about the submission rules: Being new I know I have to have the date stamp on my pictures.. but to submit them, HOW do I get the date off without cloning various elements of the photo? IE: I have a picture for the Branch challenge.. but in the right hand corner there is a big yellow date... I can clone some of the rocks to cover it up..but beyond that.. how do I do this.. the rules said no cloning??? *gah* .. lol so much to learn.. any help would be appreciated |
You're NOT required to have the date actually ON the image, even for verification of the original. You should turn off the date-stamping option in the camera menu. You cannot legally clone it out so you'll have to crop it off. The required date info is part of the "metafile" (the exif file) that your camera appends to each exposure. When you submit an original for verification, they read the exif file to see that it is an unaltered original. If you do ANY work on this original image it will show in the exif data and the DQ is automatic.
You need to download the images to your hard drive and then clone off a copy to work on, saving it as a different file name. Leave the original alone from that point on.
Robt.
Ah, I see that (of course) if the date stamp is added in-camera (which it surely is) it's actually legal. But the voters will not respond well to it...
Message edited by author 2005-09-05 02:55:54.
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09/04/2005 11:11:24 PM · #9 |
| Okay.. may I just say ~ GeneralE and Bear_Music: You two have just become my hero's (okay well for the moment) I was pretty much hating that little yellow date thing. That makes life SOOOO much easier!! Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me.. off to crop out my very last date stamp ;) |
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09/04/2005 11:12:22 PM · #10 |
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