[wumply]

Hello:

First, I got Mike Cermak's OK to post this request for someone comfortable with Photoshop to improve my image.

I lack the skill and the patience. My impression is that it would be a fairly short job--perhaps 1/2 hour at most -- for which I would be willing to pay some reasonable price up front.

If some such person should be interested, perhaps he could contact me through the private messaging system and give me his email address in that message. Then I could email the image I have as an attachment explaining what I wanted done and we could discuss things via regular email at that point. It is a 4.73 mb file as I want to make an 8 x 10 or even an 11 x 14 print. (I photographed the picture with a 5 megapixel camera.)

Edit: corrected spelling of Mike's last name

wumply

[buck52]

Might be a good idea to post a reduced version of it in the forum so people will have a clue if they could tackle it for you

you may have to upload that large a file to the web and provide a link, some emails may not let it go through

buck

[etaf]

i would be willing to help out - but from your post I dont know what it is you want done, so dont know
a) If I can or want to do it
b) how long it will actually take
but your welcome to PM or email me

[buck52]

Originally Posted by etaf

i would be willing to help out - but from your post I dont know what it is you want done, so dont know
a) If I can or want to do it
b) how long it will actually take

Kind of what I was getting at

buck

[wumply]

buck52:

Yes, your point was (is) well-taken. As it turned out I had 3 private message replies (one from etaf by the way) and one non-private one. However, I would have had to post 2 files (and explain why there were 2). There were two because the file I wanted worked on had been worked on but was not satisfactory and the 2nd. file was a small version of what I wanted but was needed to show whoever worked on it what I now wanted done. Confusing? It is complex, which is why I chose to save all that detail for whoever was interested in helping me. Also the file I wanted worked on was 4.73 mb--not exactly amenable to making it small enough to post on your page.

[etaf]

the one from etaf was me.

[buck52]

Hi Again wumply

Not confusing at all... I hope you get the results you are looking for...

The other thing is there are plenty of people here that are good at image editing that do it just for the practice...might get what you want for free.

by the way...I resize images from my 6 megapixel camera and post them here all the time...while they don't have the same impact of an 8x10 they display quite nice...

anyway good luck

[wumply]

Etaf...thanks for your clarification; I was pretty sure you penned both responses.

Buck re your thoughtful response. I chose uly7 because he was one of the first and I liked his response. He did a nice job and at the moment there's just a tiny, tiny area of touchup I hadn't noticed before which I've written him about. I suppose he willl charge me but I expected that. I'd have loved to get it done for free but there was no way I could ask for that that I could see.

So I could have reduced my big file down to, say, a thumbnail and attached it to my post, or your software would have reduced a 4.73 mb file? I just assumed you would have a strict size limit for a post with an image file in order to reduce bandwidth...yes, I recall, only a tad ruefully, the saying: "Assume makes an *** out of me...I'll forget the 'you'." Would you clarify things for me please?

I'm thinking I should post my result here anyway once I know how...it's (to me at least) a lovely photograph of a young girl--a very, very classic look, done with considerable taste and artistry. Then you and etaf could see it and some others also.

[buck52]

Howdy once again wumply

uly7 is a great choice...

what do you have for image programs? If you don't have Photoshop no worry... No need to go to thumbnail size to display here... let me give you an example... this was done using the free Irfanview... www.irfanview.com ...

open your image... I clicked image then resize/resample then on the right side put a dot next to 640x480 then click OK....then click image> sharpen then click file >save as save at the default compression...

This is a friend I work with, and his wife at wedding I was asked to do some informal candids at...

started as a full size jpg from my camera

would like to see a before and after of your photo

buck

[wumply]

Hi Buck:

Hey, just realized you're in Massachusetts...Close by...where? I was born in Lynn (1930).

And 2nd. Hey, I do have Photoshop and so I played around with smallerizing (my word) the size of my images, going by the way you did it with Irfanview (which I don't have.) Duck soup. And VERY COOL! Do you ever cease to be stunned by all the incredible things computers do--I don't? So in a couple of days I'll smallerize both my original and the modified version and post them here so you can compare.

And I'm wondering does Photoshop have a way to get both versions side-by-side as one image? For if I could do that then you, the viewer, would not have to click on one image and then the other to compare them.

[buck52]

Howdy wumply

20 miles south of Boston on the coast...Scituate

resize both then in Photoshop and leave them open then click file >new and set the size of the new image for twice the width or height of one of your images...then select each image and drag it to the new canvas...then save...you may have to resize or compress the resulting file to be able to post it here

buck

[wumply]

So Buck...is there a limit to the size of the file that can be posted here?

Also I've these questions. Since I got Photoshop, I've found 3 new icons associated with my images. These icons show up with the link or shortcut when I save my images in My Documents.

1. If I should ever want to post those images or do something with them, is there some way to save just the icons themselves?

2. I notice that there is one image for jpg files, one for png files and a 3rd. one for tif files. Does Photoshop arrange for these icon and did Photoshop create them? If not, where do they come from? (The Picture and Fax Viewer icon--as seen in "Open With"--blue sky, blue mountains, evergreens, yellow field) appears to be very similar to the tif file icon). If a description of the icons would help in answering this, I can describe them. I'm running XP; "Open with" tells me my viewers are Photoshop, Image Ready, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, and Paint. I've been using Photoshop only to open files.