Landscape scene

[csa mt]

I loved the bright field with the very dark, threatening sky, and the greenery around it!

[deetheturk]

Hi Carol, nice capture, if it were my image I would crop a bit from the r/h/s so the silo is not in the center of the frame

[Shadowman]

Nice one, those skies don't look so frightening.

[csa mt]

Thanks so much David; how's this crop?

[csa mt]

Not frightening, just threatening (of rain).

[deetheturk]

Hi Carol, this looks much better to me but i'm not a landscape guy, yet

[Donald]

I think the crop works better, but is there a need for a clockwise rotation or am I being fooled by something? It feels as if it's sloping down to the left a bit.

[csa mt]

Thanks Donald, I'm really not sure if it's sloping or not; the poles, etc. seem straight. I was not using my tripod, so no bubble level to go by. I really don't know how to rotate an image slightly. With PS, I've not been able to get satisfactory results.

[ShaneS]

Have you tried the ruler tool under the analysis drop down menu in PS Carol. In this case I would plant one end along one side of the silo and the other at the bottom. Sometimes I have to undo/redo a few times until it looks right but I've found that if I zoom in as much as possible before I use the tool it works better.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Carol, I like the crop Don't you have ACR in PS? If you have , you can just go to the 'lens corrections - manual' and choose the 'rotate' option and adjust the image.

[csa mt]

Shane I do not see "analysis" in PhotoShop Elements.

[csa mt]

Binnur; Perhaps "ACR" is not in Elements? What is it?

[Donald]

Binnur; Perhaps "ACR" is not in Elements? What is it?

The version of ACR that is in Elements is different from the version of ACR that is in Photoshop. Basically the same tool, but bits of it are not available in the Elements version.

ACR = Adobe Camera Raw, the tool that processes RAW files.

[ShaneS]

Carol, I was talking about Photoshop CS5 but I don't know if the same thing exists somewhere in Elements.

I assume that you shoot in JPEG? ACR is Adobe Camera Raw and is what is used to 'develop' a RAW file before you do any further processing in a program like Elements, the full blown version of Photoshop or many others. Again, I'm not sure how this is or isn't integrated with Elements so I hope that someone else will chime in who has experience with that software.

Even if you shot in JPEG you could use ACR to do the adjustment there as Binnur suggested.

So sorry I couldn't be of more assistance

[csa mt]

Thanks for that information Donald.

I do not see ACR anywhere in Elements 11. However, I'm very new to Elements, so might be looking right at it, and not "seeing it".

[Donald]

Thanks for that information Donald.

I do not see ACR anywhere in Elements 11. However, I'm very new to Elements, so might be looking right at it, and not "seeing it".

It's definitely there. I don't use it myself, so we need Elements 11 users to come into the discussion to explain how you access it.

[csa mt]

Wow Shane, no need to be sorry; as you've cleared up the mystery of what ACR is. Yes, I shoot in JPEG.
Again, my thanks!

[csa mt]

"It's definitely there. I don't use it myself, so we need Elements 11 users to come into the discussion to explain how you access it. "

My thanks again Donald; I appreciate it! Hopefully Elements 11 users will drop by and give me the Dummy 101 course!

[Donald]

Yes, I shoot in JPEG.

Ah hah! In that case you don't need ACR. And what we need to do is convince you of the benefits of shooting in RAW format so that you take control of the final image and not the camera.

What's happening when you shoot in JPEG is that the views and opinions of what a final image should look like as held by a highly skilled technician employed by the company that made your camera, are being put into place. You are not deciding what the final image will look like. The way that person programmed your camera to behave is deciding what your pictures look like.

When, on the other hand, you shoot in RAW format, all you get out is the raw data. It's then up to you to process (starting with a RAW processor like ACR) that data in the way that you think is appropriate to produce the final image that you had in your head when you pressed the shutter. It's another part of the learning curve, but well, well worth the effort if you want to get really serious about your photography.

[csa mt]

Donald, processing raw images is very overwhelming to me, since I've never done it. I tried a while back to open a raw image, and wow, I wouldn't even know where to begin! Definitely way out of my comfort zone.

I just remembered I could not do raw in Elements without an update that included my camera. I had problems with the download & couldn't get it downloaded. So I would have to work with raw in FastStone. If I recall, when I opened the raw file in FastStone, I could not even recognize it as an image, and was at a complete loss as to where to even begin.