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SteveLedger wrote:
However, this image does
► http://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-country-meadow-louise-topp.html
Aura, the image you originally queried about the printing looks fine to me too. I have had a little play with the image that Steve suggests does have a yellow cast. I agree with him on that and not only does it have a yellow cast, it is also a little over exposed too.

To remove the colour cast, Photoshop Elements has a tool to remove colour casts that worked a treat. It's a simple as clicking on something that should be either black, white or grey. I chose a cloud. Let me know if you wish to see my fiddled with version (I won't upload it here as you yourself seem reluctant to do that.)
Recovering the over exposure is more tricky, if indeed practical from a jpeg. As Steve hints at, a raw image would normally have more scope for fixing under/over exposure and colour balance issues plus a whole lot else!

If you set the camera to raw+ you get both a jpeg and a raw file. If the jpeg is fine you could delete the raw, or if not adjust the raw file and save it back out as a jpeg.

Comment by JAK posted on Picture not printed right at 07/02/2016 - 00:40

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gtis wrote:
You should have taken Barrie up on his offer
Yes, maybe, but expect he'd want to come straight down the A1 rather than the coast road. Hopefully there'll be another time. In any event, the weather hasn't been very encouraging for a day out this weekend!
Northern Rail are supposed to be increasing the service in April and hopefully they'll continue with the £10 ticket offer in the paper (I do have the vouchers so will have to arrange something another day.)
Hope you all have a great day (and not get too wet!)

Comment by JAK posted on Anyone up for a 'One Lens Challenge'? at 07/02/2016 - 00:20

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I did have some thoughts of joining you but the first train from here on a Sunday isn't until after 11, let alone get there for eleven (and then it'd be a three hour journey!) Hope the rain eases for you.
Even worse, apparently buses replace trains between Driffield and Bridlington/Scarborough tomorrow. By time I got there you'd all be gone home!

Comment by JAK posted on Anyone up for a 'One Lens Challenge'? at 06/02/2016 - 22:58

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A simple suggestion needing no site update. tag them POTW then a search for POTW should reveal them all.

Comment by JAK posted on Picture of the Week at 04/02/2016 - 19:17

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You don't need to buy one, you can get a free one here (I use their service and have had no problems at all) -
http://www.noip.com/

Comment by JAK posted on Wordpress Q. at 04/02/2016 - 15:50

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Clone the ball out and we can have of one of those spot the ball competitions the local papers used to have!
Great capture.

Comment by JAK posted on old Press Print -- Soccer Action at 04/02/2016 - 12:26

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They also have the 18-270mm at the same price. link

Comment by JAK posted on Pentax 16-85mm £349 at 04/02/2016 - 12:16

JAK
I too have a paid for version of Serif PhotoPlus. I also have PSE. The Serif software is a clone of PSE but I do find it less stable than PSE so gave up using it (it kept crashing.)
I tried Lightroom but didn't like the way it wants to load up every image it finds before you can work on the one you want whereas Photoshop & Serif programs just load the image you want, let you work on it and save it back to the hard drive. That's all I need!
I also still use an old (2001) version of Serif's PagePlus for DTP work and even though I have a much newer version installed as well I find the older version is less cluttered and more stable (and that happened to be a magazine cover disc give-a-way!) Of course that isn't a photo editing program but it does get fed photos!
Another possibility to try is DXO Optics Pro. It is more like a Lightroom clone. I have it installed and use it occasionally.
Yet another (freeware) program with many useful options is IrfanView. I like that one and use it quite often.
I presume you've tried the Pentax software that came with the camera? Some do actually like that although I found it a bit slow to do anything and got frustrated with it.

Comment by JAK posted on Lightroom and Photoshop Alternatives at 03/02/2016 - 23:43

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microlight2010 wrote:
PEF user here. There doesn't appear to be a downside with obsolescence since there's a free DNG coder from Adobe that will convert PEF to DNG if your need to.
Do you find there's an upside to using PEF?

Comment by JAK posted on KS-2 DNG vs PEF at 28/01/2016 - 16:49

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Yes, makes you wonder if some of the things presumed cannot be done actually can be. Similar to people who think it is illegal to take a photograph of a child playing in the park believing it contravenes our data protection laws when the real issue is child pornography. The laws get muddled up, sort of accidentally on purpose!

Comment by JAK posted on Permissions for Candids? at 25/01/2016 - 21:34

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