BONUS: Beat the Color into Balance
Color balance is mostly voodoo; even a high-priced digicam can muck up white weddings with twinges of pink and purple. You can twiddle color-channel sliders and histogram levels all day, or use our favorite secret weapon: Color Variations (Enhance > Adjust Color > Color Variations in Elements, or Image > Adjustments > Variations in CS2). This setting shows multiple previews of different color tweaks so you can visually adjust color by example. This screenshot shows Elements' version of Variations; Photoshop CS2's is slightly different, but just as easy to use.
1. Adjust the intensity slider to set how strong a nudge you get.
2. Click on any of the preview thumbnails to nudge the master in that color direction; click it again to nudge more.
3. Go through all four choices shown here to adjust each tonal range.
4. If you get carried away, click Undo to cancel the last nudge (subsequent clicks cancel preceding nudges). Click Reset Image to...reset the image.
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Reg
January 09, 2007 at 9:37am
Nicely Done.
What is great about photo software is all the neat tools,
what is difficult about photo software is all the neat tools!Thanks for the guided tour on how to clean up snapshots.
Tsarli
January 08, 2007 at 8:21pm
This is all very well and nice, but I think before we talk of fixing cellphone photos, we should first try to find a way via software to download them to our Macs in the first place!
Most (if not all) cellphones like the Motorola Razr mentioned in the "What You Need" section feature PC-only downloading/uploading software for photos and sound files.
Unless your phone uses a memory card (or you go via the WinXP/Bootcamp route), you are definitely out of luck!
-Charlie
Anonymous
September 14, 2007 at 5:47pm
Actually, if you own one of the newer Macs with bluetooth capability built-in, you're fine. All you need is the Bluetooth File Exchange App located in Applications/Utilities/.
I own a MacBook Pro and am constantly putting new MIDI file ring-tones on it via blue tooth, and have had no prolems taking pictures off from my Motorola phone.
jb
January 10, 2007 at 7:39pm
You can use bluetooth, as I do, provided your phone is bluetooth enabled, as is your mac. This way you can transfer music, photos, themes, whatever you want to.
Todd
January 21, 2007 at 12:42pm
Yes, indeed, you can use bluetooth with the RAZR to transfer pics, but does anyone know how to enable the RAZR to transfer all the pics at once rather than having to do it one at a time? I have tried the MARK ALL function, then the MOVE fuction, but it only seems to move one pic at a time. Any suggestions?
Anonymous
February 06, 2007 at 5:13pm
How do you transfer pics on the RAZOR?
Michael Cutts
January 24, 2007 at 12:24am
I use Apple's Bluetooth File Exchange to hook up to my Razr to download pics.
First, establish a Bluetooth link (I believe this varies by Razr model and carrier, but mine is under Settings--> Connection--> Bluetooth link. Choosing this makes the phone "discoverable" for 60 seconds. You then have 60 seconds to go to Bluetooth File Exchange and choose File-> Browse Device.
I believe the first time you do this, you'll be prompted to put in a PIN on the Razr to 'bond' or somesuch term with your particular Mac. For these instructions I'm assuming you've already done this or that if presented with it, its straightforward enough to do without instructions and proceed.
Anyway, once you hit Browse Device, you should get a list of Bluetooth devices to pick from, which should show your Razr. Choose it and hit Browse, and after a few seconds you should get a directory listing of the media on the Razr-- I get directories for "audio", "picture", and "video". To get at photos, double-click on "picture" and you'll get a list of all the pics in your Razr. You can shift-click or command-click to pick as many files as you want, then use the "Get" button to transfer them over to your Mac. After verifying that they've indeed transferred over, you can also delete files using the same file browser so that you don't have to delete them manually one-by-one with the phone.
Tip: Set up a shortcut to turn Bluetooth on/off on your Razr if you transfer files often. (Leaving it on all the time is a big battery drain). See your manual for how to set up shortcuts :-)
Sam
November 28, 2007 at 11:49pm
Michael, thanks so much for imparting the knowledge about Bluetooth and the motorola/mac link. It helps so much to know that getting pictures off my phone is this easy! I appreciate it!
Sam
Tsarli
January 30, 2007 at 5:22pm
Thanks for the advice Michael!
Actually, I got myself a "PC-only" bluetooth dongle for my PPC Mac Mini and for the heck of it, tried if it could communicate with my new Sony Ericsson K510i.
It worked! The Mini instantly recognized the K510i and I was downloading/uploading photos and files in no time. The experience was NOT this easy or pleasant with my WinXP PC.
Thanks for those who helped by offering this very important piece of advice.
-Charlie
