Lately while riding my bike, I find myself attracted to the colors around me, and almost feel moved by the diverse hues, shapes, and colors in the county town I live in. With my trigger finger on my camera’s shutter button, firing away in machine gun fashion, shooting up the neighborhood. So the question is: How come the colors in my processed image don’t look as “vibrant” as they did when I made the shot?

The answer lies beyond the scope of this article, but perhaps I can help.

So here’s an image I took of my neighbors cabin door. (left) I swear, it was much better looking color wise when I took the image!  So how did I improve the saturation in two (2) easy steps to get the image you see below? Simple Photoshop’s ”Apply Image”!!

One of the major advantages to shooting in RAW is we have immediate access to correct for any exposure problems during a shoot. There are times though when we either forget to set the camera settings to RAW, or we just prefer to shoot JPG format. In either case there comes a time when open up an image to process and discover we have taken an under exposed image.

Although this image of a baseball was shot in front of a dark background, the foreground has an obvious problem in the exposure department. Photoshop quick tip #1: Make duplicate copies of the background image, and set the blend mode to “screen.”