Randy Fredlund our Technical Support expert will cover the latest features, tips and tricks to maximizing your experience using Vivid-Pix Picture-Fix software.
Do you do windows?
Clean the platen! That’s the piece of glass that keeps your photo from falling into the guts of the scanner. Just as if your picture is dirty, dirt on the glass will be reproduced as a defect in your image.
Even more annoying, it will be in the same spot in all the images you scanned that session. ...
Q: What’s black and white and red all over?
A: A faded picture of a newspaper clipping.*
Q: Great-Grandma, why are you so red in the face?
A: I’m embarrassed that I’m fading away.
3rd Grade humor aside, we all know that old pictures fade**. And one of the most common results of fading is a red cast to the image. Why is that?
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And where is my slinky? More on that later.
Here are a few guidelines for what types of images can be helped most successfully by RESTORE.
Fade types
"RAW, RAW, RAW!…that’s the spirit!” I hear this all the time from a number of folks who shoot RAW with their cameras.
We’re pleased to begin providing articles on improving your Restoration/Throwback images. We’re also pleased to be working with Rachel LaCour-Niesen of www.SaveFamilyPhotos.com / #savefamilyphotos.
The below “conversation” begins this collaboration with a topic that is near and dear to all of our hearts – the connection to our past that photography provides. Both the images and the stories they suggest allow us to be a little closer to those...
This is so cool...
Pardon me for the dated use of “cool.” I don’t have a better way to express what I feel.
I live in upstate New York, USA. No, not skyscrapers and concrete...this is primarily farm country. Think apples and dairy cows. And I actually enjoy living on what many people would consider the frozen tundra. As my...
Though certainly not the norm, occasionally some photos can come out grainy.
When an image is very dark, or very low contrast, the potential for graininess rises. In particular, when your camera is forced to boost the low light level that it captures, the image may become grainy. You may not realize this is happening because cameras generally make this boost automatically. And some cameras do this...
So just what is lightness and contrast?
In an image, lightness (or brightness) is the overall light level. The picture of an eel in a coral crevasse at 30 feet is a good example of an image without much lightness, unless you illuminate it with a strobe. A dolphin just under the surface can be an example of an image with high lightness.
While there are many techniques for sharpening, some yield better results than others. We have selected one with a counterintuitive name...Unsharp Masking. Why? Because it tends to accentuate the important parts to the image without increasing visual noise or graininess.
Have you noticed that your underwater images aren’t always as sharp as what you are used to seeing topside? That’s probably because the water scatters the light bouncing off your subject.
If you don’t want to loose any sharpness due to light scattering, you’ll need to capture your photos in...
