Better?


*Cropped
*Deleted dust
*missing one sharpen layer and no noise reduction since neat image doesn't work with CS4 (CS4 works wonderfull for the rest btw, this my first photo with it)
*use a very light darken layer to colour in the highlights but used a masked to exclude the eyes

great photos you capture them just in time it's all melting now
Love the first one

The first photo is great Amin, very lovely face he has there

Your last photo is to bright I think, use Tools>Color Tools>Levels to correct this. You can also play with some layers afterwards, Duplicte the layer and try the layer option Soft Light for example and things like that, really just play and see what it does and combine layers to get the effect you want.

Ross try out Adobe Lightroom it will compliment Photoshop nicely.
You can use it the way I use it to get the files in DNG but it also archive them automaticly and you can edit the photos in Lightroom self so it leaves the original alone. You can download a 30 day trial at Adobe, it really works well and is 64bit also

Thank you Liam,
is the threat for the QR plate still in the middle of the camera?
The model Richard shows has the hole not centered

The left photo is okay to me, it's the photo you want to crop right?
I don't know what software you use but it's quite simple to use a crop tool so try it out and see if you can do it.

The middle and the right photo you have used a too long of a shutter time and moved the camera while it was still making the photo.
Next time use the lowest f-number you can and heightened the ISO till the shutter time is around 80 or higher. If it's inside you problable will be using a ISO of 800 or 1600 if it isn't well litt. the use of a flash is also recomended

The middle and the right photo can't really be make better, maybe just a little if you spend a lot of hours on it but it will never be nice photos

I use something that looks like Matt technique.
* Create a new layer in PS
* Change the brush mode from "Normal" to "Color"
* Get a small paintbrush, at 100% opacity
* Alt-click on the blue sky or branch
* Paint on the purple
* Change the layer mode from "Normal" to "darken"
* Adjust the opacity of the layer if needed

I haven't tried Matt's one so don't know which one is better

Alright I will do some photoshoping on it and I will let you all know how it comes out
It's just that I think the empathie should be at taking the photo as pefrect as you can with your camera and only do some minor things on the pc. It just don't really seem right to take away the dust on the pillow here, it's how it is in realy life. If I crop the image the dust wouldn't be close to the third line so it would be less obvious.

Great to hear Amin you got the lens, you will like it
You can go ahead an post your photos here if you like but it might be better if you post your photos in another thread so that you also get some comment from other forum members. It doesn't mind they are from your fuji camera we will still love to see them

Hasn't the metering improved with the K200D. The K200D has the same sensor as the K10D and the K-M but is alot newer then the K10D, it would be better to compare it with that one I believe.

Sorry Alan but that's wrong since the focal length stays the same but because the sensor is smaller it crops the image to an image that looks like it's taken with a 1.5X longer focal length.
Things like the focal ratio (f-number) will stay the same.