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Even though CS3 has had two successors, it is still in a not affordable price level. The college discount program dont offer it anymore.
Does this software take out a lot of space?
Windows Vista
Answer by Mujer Alta
Getting rid of blurry depends on how blurry and if the blur is due to camera motion or is noise due to low light conditions. After you tweak everything else in the photo – lighting, contrast, saturation, etc. – go to Filter>Noise>Remove Noise and see if taking the noise level down a notch improves the image. For the very last step you can try Enhance>Unsharp Mask. Start with the Amount around 110, Threshold around 1 or 2 and the radius slider all the way over on the left side. Be sure Preview is Checked. Click and hold on the slider and, while you watch the zoomed in part of the photo in the preview window, VERY SLOWLY drag the slider over to the right. The nanosecond you see a change, stop dragging. It’s very easy to overdo Unsharp Mask.
You don’t say what’s wrong with your night photos but, if your camera works like most of them, besides being too dark, there’s a lot of noise. It’s best to open really problematic photos in the ACR (Adobe Camera Raw). Click on File>Open As…. Browse to one of your night shots and click on it. Down in the bottom-most box in the Open As… dialogue, choose Camera RAW as the file type and click OK.
Your photo will open in a new workspace that you’ve probably never seen before. I love the ACR because I can do so much more to a photo with it. You usually would start at the top – but for now don’t adjust the temperature, etc. Move down to exposure and move the slider to the right to give the photo some light…don’t overdo it. Then fiddle with the next few sliders to bring back some detail. If you can boost the color in the night photo, use the vibrance, clarity, etc. sliders at the bottom. If you do too much and want to begin again, press the ALT key on your keyboard and the Cancel button magically turns into a Reset button. (This works on just about every dialogue that doesn’t have its own Reset button.)
When you’ve done all you can do in the ACR, check the box at the bottom middle to be sure it says “8 bits”, hold down the ALT key to change the “Open Image” button over on the bottom left into “Open Copy” (this leaves the original photo unchanged in case you need to go back and re-work it)… and click on Open Copy. Your photo will now open in the regular Elements workspace where you can tweak it somemore – use Filter>Noise>Remove Noise and/or Unsharp Mask on it.
Use File>Save As… and give your edited photo a slighting different name so you don’t overwrite and destroy the original photo. (I usually add ED to the file name. butterfly.jpg becomes butterflyED.jpg)
Thank you so much for providing your operating system… most people don’t give enough information…. but next time please also tell us what version of Elements you’re using. Some versions have more “goodies” than others:-)
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