Featured Photo Editing and Presentation With Photoscape

green18 · Jun 30, 2013

Oh, the difference between the two is so evident. Great photo's Rassi! :thumb:

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biged239 · Jul 1, 2013

Some resurrections are priceless. Thanks green18.
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definer · Oct 30, 2013

For those who care PhotoScape X for the Mac v1.0 is now available.

http://x.photoscape.org/mac/

giorgio11 · Oct 30, 2013

I would be curious to know how many Mac users have downloaded and used this ... I'm a bit leery of free downloads on a machine this expensive

Best Regards,

George

Circus · Oct 30, 2013

Somebody on another forum and then this forum told me about photoscape and i love it it does a lot more than my two purchased software. I am now using it more and more. Great tutorial and yes it should be pinned to the top as a must read.

tgaw · Oct 30, 2013

good information

josh's coins · Jul 16, 2014

green18 said: ↑

Next step: Once the program is installed you can load your saved pics into Photoscape and start the editing process. I typically save anything I want to edit to the desktop of my computer, that way I can find my pics with a minimum of aggravation.

So, you've got your pics on the desktop. Fire up the Photoscape program and hit the editor tab up on the toolbar.

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You can drag and drop your picture into the program display area or you can search for it over on the left side menu area. After the pic is in the program I'll play with the lighting a bit. See "bright, color" down there at the bottom? Click that and bring up a variety of options. usually the only thing I do is add some brightness to my coins by sliding the indicator thingy. After that, I'll hit "auto contrast". In the case of the above pic I felt that I didn't have to add any brightness. See the little magnifier off to the right? I click that to make the picture larger

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Next I want to crop my picture.

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Photoscape allows you to crop "in the round so to speak. Drag the lines around your image, choose a background color, and hit "crop" It should look something like this.

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Where do I go to choose a background color? that's the part that stumped me.

desertgem · Jul 16, 2014

What do you mean ~ background color for what? To make a background color for a cropped round object such as a coin, put the photo with the coin in edit, select the crop tab, check the crop round image box, below that line click on the background color and do it.

Paul_62 · Jul 16, 2014

When you crop your original image you can choose there. If you use crop freely that is, and then check Crop Round Image. A color pull down box will open below.

green18 · Jul 16, 2014

josh's coins said: ↑

Where do I go to choose a background color? that's the part that stumped me.
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What Jim and Paul said........

josh's coins · Jul 16, 2014

Aright thanks guys I got it all figured out yet. It is going to take a while to redo all of the photos on my website.

josh's coins · Jul 25, 2014

is it possible to remove the backgrounds from images in this software? That would help me a whole lot.

definer · Jul 28, 2014

Josh,

Try this techniques:

http://photosoftwareblog.com/how-to-change-photo-background-in-photoscape/

green18 · Jul 28, 2014

definer said: ↑

Josh,

Try this techniques:

http://photosoftwareblog.com/how-to-change-photo-background-in-photoscape/
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Thanks for the link Definer......

coinzip · Jul 28, 2014

awesome post green..... thanks for taking the time to share.

green18 · Jul 28, 2014

coinzip said: ↑

awesome post green..... thanks for taking the time to share.
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Thanks Alan. It was, I must say, a labor of love.......

green18 · Jul 28, 2014

As for all the questions of why this isn't 'pinned', I know not. Perhaps someone is worried about copyright infringement? Who the devil knows. It's my own words and my own photos so I don't know how that could be the case. Is someone out to get me? Maybe. Even paranoid people have enemies.......

Ruben Rael · Nov 20, 2015

green18 said: ↑

Hi friends. With so many new (and young) people joining the community of late, I thought that it might be helpful to share some photo editing ideas that have helped me with my coin presentations here on Coin Talk. It doesn't take a big budget or lots of fancy camera equipment and expensive software to make decent presentations of your coin pictures. The camera that I employ is a Cannon Photoshot SD 1200 IS. It's a basic point and shoot photo platform that has "macro" capabilities, something you want to have in a camera if you're going to take closeup pictures of your coins. It was not terribly expensive and I'm sure that it's well within the budget constraints of more than a few folks on this forum. Even you YN's. Heck, it would make a terrific Birthday Present for any deserving YN.

OK, you've got that camera in hand, you take a few shots, and low and behold, you want to present them....but how? Photoscape Childrens.....a terrific editing software program for the ever thrifty (and sometimes cheap ) photographer 'cause it's free.
Download it here......

Next step: Once the program is installed you can load your saved pics into Photoscape and start the editing process. I typically save anything I want to edit to the desktop of my computer, that way I can find my pics with a minimum of aggravation.

So, you've got your pics on the desktop. Fire up the Photoscape program and hit the editor tab up on the toolbar.

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You can drag and drop your picture into the program display area or you can search for it over on the left side menu area. After the pic is in the program I'll play with the lighting a bit. See "bright, color" down there at the bottom? Click that and bring up a variety of options. usually the only thing I do is add some brightness to my coins by sliding the indicator thingy. After that, I'll hit "auto contrast". In the case of the above pic I felt that I didn't have to add any brightness. See the little magnifier off to the right? I click that to make the picture larger

View attachment 123545

Next I want to crop my picture.

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Photoscape allows you to crop "in the round so to speak. Drag the lines around your image, choose a background color, and hit "crop" It should look something like this.

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Next, you're going to want to resize your photograph to a size that's compatible with this (CT) site. Click on the "home" tab at the bottom and choose a size, or if you're like me, you'll just type 800 in the top (Length) box and let the software determine the other setting (height). At this point you're finished with phase one and will want to save the photo to your desktop. You'll get a message that "the photo already exists and do you want to replace it"? Click yup, and you've got your finished product back on the desktop. Employ the same procedures with the reverse of the coin.

Now to combine your obverse and reverse photos.....

Look at the toolbar at the very top.....you'll see "combine". Click that and you get any empty area ready to fill with your picks. Make sure you have "side" checked (tab off to the right) and that the little slider bar at the bottom is set below 50%, otherwise, when you drag your coins into the open area they will be humongous. OK. Drag your desktop photos into the program and you should get something like this.......

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Click "save" and save the combined photo to the desktop.

Next, on the top toolbar, click "edit" and drag your photo into the open area. One thing I should mention.....if a photo is already in the editing area don't sweat it. Just drag and drop your new photo and the previous one will disappear. OK, drag the photo. The first thing I like to do is add a little reflection at the bottom of the coin. If you click on "filter" (bottom) up will pop a bunch of options. Choose "reflection" and you'll get something like this....

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You can see my settings but you might just want to play with 'em a bit to achieve your own personal effect.

Next, click on "frame" and pull up "black line 8". You'll get something like this....

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Next click on "margin" and assign how much room you want to add at the bottom of the reflection. This is where you might want to add some writing (next step). These are my settings but you may want to add your own......

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OK, now to personalize Dr. Franklin. Click on "object" (right next to home at the bottom) and observe this......

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See the "T"? Click that and you get a dialog box. Something like this:

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Click "ok" and then take your mouse pointer and position the writing at the bottom of your photo. When it's where you want it to be click in any area of the picture and the lettering becomes permanently placed. Don't like it's positioning? Just click "undo". For that matter, anything that you've done with the photo (considering you haven't already saved it) can be easily undone by clicking "undo".

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The last thing I do is add the "frame line"......

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Save the pic back to your desktop and you're done.....

Finished product folks.......

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Hope my post has helped some of you and not been offensive or off colour to anyone.....
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Ruben Rael · Nov 20, 2015

serafino · Dec 27, 2015

Outstanding thread, would be nice if it could be anchored.

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definer definitely....! LOL

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Circus Tokens Only !! TEC#4981

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