ENHANCED vs. NON-ENHANCED
21 09 2005I’m still slowly scanning old photos into iPhoto. I just can’t get over the difference between enhanced and non-enhanced pictures. It’s amazing! The below image is a good example, and yes, that’s me in the backpack.
My dad is not a computer person, so he doesn’t really understand any of this stuff. I showed him the before and after pictures and even he was impressed. He couldn’t believe that the image had faded that much over the years. The thing is I always remember that picture looking yellowish. I thought it was supposed to look that way. I think that is why I am so amazed at the differences.
Did you ever get your portrait made at Sears as a child? My hair (and skin) took on a reddish glow in all those pictures. I don’t know if that was a process over time, or if Sears did something funky in development, but it seemed to be a trademark of their photographs.
Or maybe it was TG&Y I was thinking of (remember that store?)
Anyway, that’s quite a difference in your ‘before’ and ‘after’ shot. Do you have to manipulate it, or does iPhoto just automatically adjust it to the appropriate colors?
iPhoto has an enhance button and when you click it, it automatically adjusts the picture to the appropriate color. But there’s also a tool bar thingy were you can fine tune the adjustments. There’s a sharpen bar that I’ve been very conservative with. The other day I played around with it and sharpened a picture as far as the bar would allow. It brought the entire picture into focus. Now I have to go back to the others and “fix” them.