How did you celebrate Earth Day?

April 22 was Earth Day. Let's celebrate by taking beautiful pictures of our neighborhood in Spring.

How to Bring Out Shadows and Highlight Details

High contrast landscapes are difficult to capture their complete tonal range. This is a limitation of today’s cameras. This photo is taken on a sunny afternoon and PhotoDirector can work wonders in restoring its shadows and highlight details.

First of all, adjust the Dark and Darkest sliders to bring out colors of the trees.

Adjust Bright and Contrast to enhance the clouds.

Apply Gradient Mask to enhance color and contrast of the skies and cloud.

 Next adjust sharpness and reduce noise.

Adjust the tonal curve for added punch.

Here is the before and after for comparison.

The final adjusted image here:

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Get Ready for Easter

Check this home-made Easter Hunt video. Hope it brings some inspiration for you to make your own Easter Production.





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Cherry Blossom in Full Bloom

There are over 600 varieties of Cherry Trees. The shape of the flower petals, colors and blooming period varies. Originated in Japan, most cherry trees blossom in Spring and it's this time of year that the Japanese would picnic under a Cherry Blossom Tree to enjoy the transient beauty of the flower and Spring.

 

 

 

 

 

How to Restore Underexposed Portraits

When it comes to street photography, speed is of essence. Things happen fast around you and you are not in control. Sometimes, we just quickly snap the pictures only to find out that the subject is not exposed correctly. So, it’s always best to shoot in RAW, because even if the photo is underexposed, you can always restore the image in PhotoDirector.

In this tutorial, we will take this image of a lady waking in front of me taken at a temple in Nepal. The face turned out to be underexposed.

In PhotoDirector there are 5 sliders to adjust exposure: Exposure for global adjustment and Black, Blackest, Midtone, Bright and Brightest will only adjust partially.

To fix underexposure, we can start by adjusting Black and Blackest sliders until the image restores its colors.

 

Next step is to give the image more punch by adjusting the white balance to give it more warmth and increase clarity.

The final step is to adjust sharpness and removing noise.

 

And the final image here:

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Action Sports in Snow

Today we picked an action sports video from a PowerDirector user. This snow boarding video was taken from a sports camera. Most sports videos require some editing to make it entertaining and we'd like to show one that was done very well. Kudos to




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