By Eleanor T. Culling
www.eleanorstravels.com

Adjusting with the Adjust dialog choices

Brightness and Contrast

Notice that you can change the portion of the photo to better see how your settings are applied.

Color Balance

You'll need to experiment carefully with the three variables.

Flash/Backlighting - Flash

In this case it was possible to open up the shadow area. Of course, it is usually used with photographs of people to better see detail in the foreground.

Flash/Backlighting - Backlighting

In this case a Backlighting adjustment was used to take some of the brightness out of the background.

Saturation

This is one of the best ways to improve a lackluster photo.

Sharpness 

This is the sharpening tool you should use because you will be better able to finetune just how much unsharp mask will be applied.

The Crop Tool is really quite nice.

Effects - Photo Edge

Nice choices - not 'cute', amateurish ones! Other effects include changing your photo to black and white or sepia toned, you can add picture frames and borders too. (Picture frame possibilities are ghastly though, as they are in most programs.)
'Thinify' is another tool which will stretch or 'thin' a photo. You can Maintain Image Size or not. Other Special effects: Ripples, Glass Blocks, Edges, Fisheye and Invert.

The Text Tool has been very well done... better than in many full-fledged image editing programs, because you can work right on the photo rather than in a separate box.

Other Options - shown in the Tools menu.

Make Movie prepares a Quick Time movie from a set of several images. The Catalog and Database options are beyond the purview of this article. Explore the Options to set Preferences.

The Share Menu

There are fun things to do here!

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 By Eleanor T. Culling
www.eleanorstravels.com