Editing of Potential Calendar Shots 2016

[F, Calla & Luca]

If you would like critiques and/or help with editing of potential calendar shots post them here. Members often volunteer to help. Please post the original photo unedited if you want help. The helper will probably ask you to email the original photo. Before you ask for help on your photos read the Guidelines for the calendar and keep them in mind when taking photos and when posting here. Remember to take the best quality, ie large file size and highest resolution your camera can take.

http://www.doodlekisses.com/page/calendar-photo-requirements

An easy way to see if your photo meets the minimum calendar requirements is to use Jeffrey's exif viewer.

http://regex.info/exif.cgi

You can pop your photo's URL in the proper place and you will get lots of metadata including # of pixels. there is a ton of information but the number of pixels is what you need. Calendar pictures must be 2300 pixels wide by 1800 pixels high.

Example:

Jeffrey Friedl's Image Metadata Viewer 
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Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer

[CLEAR IMAGE]

Basic Image Information

Target image: https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/93590269?profil... Artist: Picasa Camera: Nikon D750 Lens: AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Shot at 62 mm (shot wide open) Exposure: Auto exposure, Shutter priority AE, 1/3,200 sec, f/4.8, ISO 1000 Flash: Off, Did not fire Focus: AF-A, at 6.7m, with a depth of field of about 3.5m, (from about 1.3mbefore the focus point to about 2.2m after) AF Area Mode: Dynamic Area (9 points) Date: July 15, 2016   2:10:37PM (timezone not specified) (1 month, 9 days, 8 hours, 46 minutes, 31 seconds ago, assuming image timezone of 4 hours behind GMT) Time Zone Offset: -04:00 File: 4,427 × 2,955 JPEG (13.1 megapixels)    11,079,038 bytes (10.6 megabytes) Color Encoding: WARNING: Color space tagged as sRGB, without an embedded color profile. Windows and Mac browsers and apps treat the colors randomly. Images for the web are most widely viewable when in the sRGB color space and with an embedded color profile. See my Introduction to Digital-Image Color Spaces for more information. Apply other tools to this image via ImgOps.com

[DJ & Chance]

Nice edit, Laurie, and what a cute doodle.

The resolution is only 70, however, and I don't think that's enough.  I could be wrong . . .

[F, Calla & Luca]

You are right. too few pixels.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

This one is adorable. My edit. Make sure and check the size with the calendar requirements.

[Peri Kolakowski]

awwww this is so sweet

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

One of them might not have enough pixels but it is so close, I would submit it anyway. The problem with the cropping is that when I tried to crop to the proper size, most of them don't have enough width.  These are beautifully crisp.  Two of the things that I know Adina looks at are cutting off the paws at the bottom and leaving enough room above the dog's head for the hole in the calendar not to be 'drilled' into the dogs head.  I would see if your dh could take a few more using the side view and keeping the total dog  in the photo.  I don't know how to do special editing but this is what I did.

[Donna K & Quincy]

If your pic doesn't have enough pixels it is possible to add some if it's a photo that has simple to clone areas.

[Cindy and Olive (Ollie)]

I feel like I'm waking up Christmas morning and finding lots of goodies that happened overnight - what a lovely way to wake! Thanks so much all for your edits and caring to help the newbie here. I'm going to read today and try to figure out some of this. It is just so nice to be thinking about photo group instead of posting in health group for a change! :-)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I don't know why this didn't load with the others last night. I was unable to fix the blown out part on the side.

[Cindy and Olive (Ollie)]

Thank you, Nancy! This looks great - it is my favorite shot of her, for me it captures her sweet soul. But DH cut off the darn paws!! Paws are too cute to omit. We will have to remember that...

[Donna K & Quincy]

Can someone fix this picture please. I need it to be less blown out and I want the doodle to be looking at the camera. :>)))

[Cindy and Olive (Ollie)]

I wish I knew how to photoshop! ;)

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

LOL...I have SO MANY of these kind of shots. Either Vern is blown out or you can't see Fudge's eyes.