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Final image after edits with Auto Tone Correction, Tone Curve, Brightness & Contrast, Hue & Saturation, and Sharpness & Blur |
Introduction
Amateur photographers will normally start off their hobby capturing images in JPEG instead of RAW. JEPG images are saved in files that are comparatively smaller in size to RAW files, and the images are immediately ready for sharing or posting on the Internet, or printed as hard copies. Inadvertently, however, chances of getting under- or overexposed shots, or shots taken with the wrong camera setting, happens ...![]() |
Original image as shot in JPEG |
Getting The Shine And Vibrance Back
JPEG images that look flat with washed-out colors (see accompanying image) can be post-processed on Olympus Viewer 3 (OV3) quite easily and this will help bring back some shine and vibrance to it.On OV3, the process is nondestructive, meaning that you will still have the original copy intact and you do the process repeatedly until you happy with the result. Post-processed data are saved to a different file location on OV3, and it is equally easy to export the post-processed images to social websites or web published on the Internet.
Process Workflow
The post-processing can be done in five quick steps, using the following tools:- Auto Tone Correction
- Tone Curve
- Brightness & Contrast
- Hue & Saturation, and
- Sharpness & Blur
The recommendation that you should work on a copy of the original file should also be heeded here, just in case.
The Image Edit Window
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The Image Edit interface on Olympus Viewer 3 (OV3) |
Step 1 - Use Auto Tone Correction
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Step 1: Image after editing with Auto Tone Correction |
Auto Tone Correction dialog box |
For this image, the correction was done using the auto mode. You may instead adjust it manually.
Step 2 - Use Tone Curve Adjustment
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Step 2: Image after editing with Auto Tone Correction and Tone Curve |
Tone Curve dialog box |
The tone curve can be changed by placing the cursor on the red line and dragging it up or down from the red line. The lower left of the line is the shadow end and the upper right is the highlight end. The middle of the line represents the mid-tones. The line can be dragged at multiple points along the line for varying results.
The RGB selection for this image was moved a single point down to slightly darken the overall tone of the image.
Step 3 - Adjust Brightness & Contrast
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Step 3: Image after editing with Auto Tone Correction, Tone Curve, and Brightness & Contrast |
Brightness & Contrast dialog box |
The Brightness & Contrast adjustment lets you make simple adjustments to this tonal range of an image. Moving the brightness slider to the right increases tonal values and expands image highlights, to the left decreases values and expands shadows. The contrast slider expands or shrinks the overall range of tonal values in the image.
For this image Brightness was increased by +5 while contrast is set at +50.
Step 4 - Increase Image Saturation
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Step 4: Image after editing with Auto Tone Correction, Tone Curve, Brightness & Contrast and Hue & Saturation |
Hue & Saturation dialog box |
For this image, Saturation was increased to +40.
Step 5 - Enhance Sharpness
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Step 5: Image after edits with Auto Tone Correction, Tone Curve, Brightness & Contrast, Hue & Saturation, and Sharpness & Blur |
Sharpness & Blur dialog box |
This function is here used in lieu of using the 'Unsharp Mask' tool, which is a very common for sharpening images on most image editing software. You can always toggle the use of the two tools to see which function produces the better result for individual images.
For this image, Sharpness was increased to +7.
That's about it. Quick and simple.
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