Washed out portrait

wise grimwald · Post by **wise grimwald** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:32 am

I have created the two portraits, a large and a small one. The large one is fine, but the one that I "stretched" by about 30% in paint to make it the correct size has washed out colours. Does anyone know how to keep the colours good for the small portrait?

anarchistica · Post by **anarchistica** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:33 pm

Ugh you use Paint? Send the pic you have (pre-stretching) to anarchisticaATgmailDOTcom and i will resize it for you using proper software.

Curry · Post by **Curry** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:39 pm

wise grimwald wrote:I have created the two portraits, a large and a small one. The large one is fine, but the one that I "stretched" by about 30% in paint to make it the correct size has washed out colours. Does anyone know how to keep the colours good for the small portrait?

your question is very vague. I don't wanna sound mean but either use portraits made by other people or read some photoshop tutorials

this is no computer graphics helpdesk

Crenshinibon · Post by **Crenshinibon** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:49 pm

Now now, no need to sound mean.

Paint is only a basic editing tool and does not offer many features that you might need. For the editing and quality resizing of images I would reccomend Paintshop Pro or Photoshop. I am not sure but you may be able to download either the entire thing or a demo.

wise grimwald · Post by **wise grimwald** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:29 am

Thanks. Your advice has been most helpful.

CFM · Post by **CFM** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:07 am

I'll second Cren's recommendation for Adobe Photoshop. I use it at work from time to time, when I need to make various form overlays for our programs. The forms I make are boring and simplistic (company invoices, purchase orders, etc.), but I've used it enough to know I'm only using 1% of it's potential. It is *the* tool to use for stuff like BG portraits.

Downside: it's pricey if you ain't got your job flippin' the bill for it.

mr_sir · Post by **mr_sir** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:59 am

I don't know if you still can, but you used to be able to download a 30 day trial of Photoshop from the Adobe website - if you only want to do BG portraits on it and will not use it very often then this might be the better option rather than buy the full version

wise grimwald · Post by **wise grimwald** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:57 pm

mr_sir wrote:I don't know if you still can, but you used to be able to download a 30 day trial of Photoshop from the Adobe website - if you only want to do BG portraits on it and will not use it very often then this might be the better option rather than buy the full version

A friend of mine at the office has offered to do it in photoshop for me. Thanks everybody. All I needed to know was that i was using the wrong software.