Re: |AX| Re: How to fix too-dark JPGs .. .

Nooby wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:55:11 -0800, Paul Furman <paul-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Nooby wrote:
Thanks -- I think you are right about them being underexposed. I
noticed that the outdoor shots are actually the right brightness, it's
the indoor ones that are so dark.
Also the sizes you posted are large email/HD TV size, not print size... OK for 4x5 prints but no larger. It sounds like he burned off this reduced size set from the original jpegs _then_ processed the raw files to make prints... maybe this is the result of sending you a preview of the full unedited set to chose your favorites before he spends the time adjusting the keepers? It would be more professional to do his own culling and only show decent looking versions but as you've learned, making those final adjustments is a lot of work & costs money/time. The underexposure may have been intentional, to prevent blowing out highlights.

Thanks for your opinion about the sizes and print size. A 4x5 would
give me 330 DPI, and that is plenty, no? And a 5x7 would be 260 DPI.
Is there anything wrong with 260 DPI on a 5x7 print?

I don't really know how the photographer prepared the JPGs, I am just
wondering if there is a reasonably simple way to fix the underexposed
ones. This is probably not the first time someone has a dark JPG and
wants to fix it up, right? It has probalby been done before. We are
not breaking fresh technical ground here.

If it takes Photoshop to do the corrections, pls post some
suggestions. Photoshop can do everything, that's what I have heard.
But I dont' want to do everything with Photoshop, all I want to do is
correct a dark JPG. And even a nooby should be able to do that if
given the correct instructions.

I wouldn't try that with irfanview - photoshop elements or picassa, almost any program but irfanview not so much. If you could get the irfan sliders to look as you wish, it's easy to batch a bunch though.

I would use masked adjustment layers in photoshop.
You can google that <g>.

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