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I just put up some new Myrtlewood pictures on my site and have some kind of a picture anomaly. Anyone out there know what this is?
I don't recall turning on any filters or matte tools, but I can't figure it out. It's not on the 1st 3 pictures, but on the ones after those.
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just on the thumbnail it is not on the full pic. It does lok like some sort of contrast or brightness filter was use in defined area of the thumbnail. If you look close the contrast in rectangle about 7/8th of the thumbnail image is darker than the outer edges. the full images look fine

Michael,
Would Adobe Photoshop throw that in if I used the auto adjust buttons in the program? I did use those to bring out the natural color, but didn't "crank" anything. Just the auto buttons.

could be that you were zoomed in on the darker area when you adjusted then saved the full pic therfore the zoomed in area was the only area adjusted. Or you had a mask defined and active that relates to the darker area. I dont use Adobe I use Gimp but they will work much the same.

I just got the Adobe, so I'm kind of clueless. That's why I relied on the auto adjust buttons. Maybe I should re-shoot the pics.

If you had not said any thing I'm not sure I would have noticed the issue. If you don't expect the wood to hange around very long I would not worry. The large format pics are fine the issue is jut the thumbnail and not a big imo.

by the way my tong is still draging the screen. Nice ZOOTMichaelP38699.569375

Thanks Michael. It is pretty wood, very stable, and the tap tone is outstanding.
Maybe I'll leave the pictures as they are.
Thanks for your advice.

Hi Doug!!
I would re-shoot at least one picture and check your camera settings. Also use your white balance.
If the reshoot looks better then I would reshoot the bad one's. This wood really looks nice. I don't believe any of the pictures will lose a sale. Some pic's look a little PINK. Is that the way it looks in real life ???

Good luck, Walter

Doug,
The auto adjust in PS does'nt always do it right. It can give a falce color cast to your pics. Try to get your camera to take a color balenced shot to begin with by adjusting the white ballence for the lighting you are using. You will spend less time trying to get photoshop to make them look better.
As far as the thumbnails, it looks like your web creation software made them into a framed button image of "clickable thumbnail". That is what makes them look like that.
I hope this helps.
Nice Zoot, by the way!

Wade

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Wade
Nashua, NH
http://www.wadefx.com

That's not an auto-adjust issue (although the automatic PS settings are generally a touch on the agressive side). I concur with Wade; the software 'buttonized' the small versions of the pics, adding a bevel.

Thank you very much guys, I'll look into the camera settings and the program setting. And thanks for the compliments on the wood. 10% off for all OLFer's.

Doug,
I just thought I’d add one more thing.
You may know this already.
My camera allows me to do a white balance by aiming the camera at a white paper (using the lighting that I will be shooting with) and that sets the camera for the session.
Well, it turns out, I have been getting a slight yellow color cast to my images regardless of the white balance, that I would have to correct in PhotoShop. Well, the other day I tried something. Instead of balancing on a white paper, I used a yellow post-it paper and that gave me near perfect images with no odd color casting. The only thing I can attribute this to is the type of lights I used (halogens). So sometimes you have to trick the camera into getting the desired result.
Believe me, it is best to try to get the image right, so you don’t have to Pshop it.
Good luck.

Wade

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Wade
Nashua, NH
http://www.wadefx.com

Thanks wade, I'll give that a try. I want the color to be as true as possible.

[QUOTE=Mattia Valente] That's not an auto-adjust issue (although the automatic PS settings are generally a touch on the agressive side). I concur with Wade; the software 'buttonized' the small versions of the pics, adding a bevel.[/QUOTE]

What Mattia said! It definitely looks like beveled buttons.

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Don Atwood
Arlington, VA

I don't remember putting a bevel in, so I don't really know how to remove it. Best go try, it's driving me nuts.