can picture quality be improved with good photo editor? Can these issues be resolved with a good photo editor such as Adobe Photoshop?
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Unfortunately not.....there are some improvements you can make if you are shooting RAW...but with a JPG you have less to work with. In short, a lousy shot is a lousy shot. If that is what your camera is giving you, time to look for a new camera (assuming of course that the individual's photo skills aren't the problem).
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You can edit the picture straight from the camera. The camera comes preinstalled with some filters you might like and you can also crop it :)
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I'm old school so I take it to a professional photo developer and let them do it all (negs, prints and high resolution cds). I don't think that answers your question but it's all I've got.
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The best pictures BY FAR come from the camera by using the handheld anti-motion blur mode. I can't explain why (I've read the explanations) but I have tested and compared and color, exposure, sharpness are noticeably better that way. If shooting in Program mode, leave the sharpness on lowest setting. White balance sometimes needs to be set to daylight manually. Set DRO to default or High. Those are just some things I've learned to get the best pictures out of this model. The Sony software that comes bundled has an outstanding "Fix" button, which adjusts the photo once you've downloaded it from the camera. It saved several poor, difficult shots and made them much better. Overall, I love my HX1!
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To Pat and J.Crosby, In my opinion, do youself a favour and don't go anywhere near Photoshop Elements 6 (PSE6). I paid for an upgrade from an earlier version and have wasted my money. The program crashes continually to such an extent it is unusable. From my googling on the internet this is the experience of numerous other people. There are no solutions I can find on the Adobe site and although these complaints seem to have been posted since PSE6 was first brought out there are no upgrades or patches to fix what are a myriad of problems. A number of people have complained that the program worked initially and then started continually crashing and that has been my experience. I won't be buying more Adobe products until they show a bit of customer care and isuue fixes for this mess. I have downloaded and installed a trial version of Pro Photo X2 and so far it seems stable. PSE6 may have more bells and whistles but that is not much use if they are unusable due to continual program crashes.
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I have Elements 5 and Paintshop Pro 8 (and 7). All are very good, but the emphasis is different. I use Elements for processing my DSLR photos using the included Adobe Camera Raw. It is reasonably easy to use and the quality of the results is excellent. I use the PTlens plugin to correct for lens defects and Elements works well with this. I very occasionally like to use a feature that Adobe has left out in order to avoid competing with full Photoshop. Examples include Curves adjustment layers and fully automated batch editing. In this case I switch to Paintshop Pro, which invariably does have the missing feature. If you don't know why you would need these features, you probably don't! I don't use the built in Organiser, because I started using Picassa (free from Google) for this purpose and I see no reason to change. For design work, such as web design, I would personally choose to use Paintshop Pro, because its feature set is more complete, (Paintshop Pro 8 is roughly equivalent to Photoshop version 6), and because those advanced features are more easily accessible. Other people that I know would choose to use full Photoshop instead, and I can understand their point of view. Photoshop Elements needs quite a powerfull (i.e. new) computer, if it is not to seem slow. I understand that this is also true for the latest Paint Shop Pro. Finally, you can download both of these products for a free month's trial, so why not try then out and make your mind up after that?
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The photo quality was lacking for me as well. As for the buttons I played with them to learn. I believe it can with a basic operation guide.
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I have never tried Photos but I have noticed that if I tried to edit a AVI/MP4 or MP3 file I cannot. I have to take the file from My Cloud and transfer it or copy it to my PC's Hard Drive and then I can edit it.
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I've done video editing with sony vegas and photo editing with Photoshop CS6 and it works flawlessly! At the time of doing both of those there was definitely music going, along with 10 chrome tabs... Possibly more
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Hi i don't know how serious you are about photo editing but I have done it for years and find Photoshop Elements 6 to be excellent. I have used it for about a year now. It came out later that the one for windows so when windows came out with PE7 for windows I called adobe and asked them if it had more features in the windows version and he said that PE7 for windows was the same as PE 6 for mac because the mac version came out later it had all the new features first. It has many of the features of the much more expensive full version of photoshop. There are online tutorials to help you learn it and there is tech support. I bought it originally for under $100 and upgrades are cheaper. If you do a search you might find it cheaper. The new version of Iphoto is also very good. It comes free with the new macs or it is part of Ilife 09. I have looked into Adobe lightroom and Aperture 2 and have not been persuaded that they are necessary for me. PE6 for mac has raw support for many cameras . Hope that helps. Ron
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I take close ups of all kinds of things and they come out good. There are free photo editing software you can download that will make your close ups even better. If you want, I will take some close ups of small objects and let you see if it's the quality you want. If so, I will give you my email so I can send them to you.
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I would say yes, but I have not used this computer for too long. You know that at the begining all windows computers perform great, but after a while it starts giving problems. But for now, I have used photoshop, photmatrix and lightroom and everything is great.
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Yes. Import the photos into a photo editing software. I use Picasa (Google product) and I can crop, change the lighting, contrast, etc. Works great. Only problem with the maching are with pictures that are odd sizes. If the picture comes out of the feeder slide. its hell to get the photo out from inside the machine. I tried using clear plastic but it degraded the lightness of the photo
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My black and white negatives were pretty big when converted. I used Windows photo manager (edit button gives you several options for improving your pictures) to compress the file size. Worked great for me!
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Believe me - compared to Photoshop this is EASY to use.......once you focus on the kinds of things you want to do with it (it can do many things!), you'll probably find it more user-friendly.....I know I did!
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Aye, I'm actually using Photoshop now on it. Don't see any reason why it wouldn't be supported.
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Yes. Photoshop or equivalent editing software. Curious as Why you would use a fisheye & then correct the distortion! If you're looking for UWA, the Tokina 11-16 2.8 is the best there is. I own one (although its F/S here on Amazon) & the color, clarity & contrast is second to none...