[Ansteorra] Flash Photography at events

[Sluggy!]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 11:02 -0700, Lori Campbell wrote:
> Another option is to invest in one of the fairly inexpensive Photoshop
> programs (I'm still using Photoshop Elements 3.0). 

Or invest nothing but download time for any of many free programs, in
particular one of the most powerful and well supported graphic editors
in existence, the GIMP, GNU Image Manipulation Program. This is by a
significant margin, my favorite photo editor. Powerful, free and always
getting new features and tools. http://www.gimp.org/windows/. Pay
particular attention to the Enhancing Photographs section of the manual,
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-imaging-photos.html

Picasa from Google is another that impresses me, though it's not
available for the right OS. It is, nonetheless, pretty good at
organizing your photos as well as adjusting images.
http://picasa.google.com/

Finally, most digital cameras these days come with a suite of software
that you may (though usually not) need to connect the camera to the PC,
but they usually come with at least semi-decent photo editors. When I've
had to muck about with photos in Windows, I have been pleased with the
software that came with our Kodak camera and that is available for free
download at http://www.kodak.com. Just look for Consumer Products and
Software.

> If you use the very simple "adjust lighting" option, you can quickly
> and easily transform this:
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/countesskat/IMG_1589_sized.jpg
> 
> to this:
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/countesskat/IMG_1589_2.jpg

"The GeoCities web site you were trying to view has temporarily exceeded
its data transfer limit. Please try again later."

Oops...   well, good to know lots of people wanted to see it!

Sluggy!