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Washed out portrait
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:32 am
by wise grimwald
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?
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:33 pm
by anarchistica
Ugh you use Paint? Send the pic you have (pre-stretching) to anarchisticaATgmailDOTcom and i will resize it for you using proper software.
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:39 pm
by Curry
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
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:49 pm
by Crenshinibon
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.
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:29 am
by wise grimwald
Thanks. Your advice has been most helpful.
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:07 am
by CFM
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.
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:59 am
by mr_sir
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
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:57 pm
by wise grimwald
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.