Lesson 4

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If you have not yet done previous lesson please do it before this one.

 

In this lesson you will learn how to enhance the colors of old photographs. Use the Help menu to Get Third Example Image. Your screen will look like this:

 

Easy-Color-Correction-Overview

As shown in the image above, you should (single) click on the top most  image in the column of sub images. Now click on this icon:

 

Color-circles

 

You will get this dialog box:

 

Easy-Color-Correction-Dialog

 

You can see that the image is quite washed out. Here is how to get it back to its former glory:

 

Step1. Drag the saturation slider to about 1.5, or type 1.5 into the saturation edit box.

Step2. Drag the contrast slider to about 1.5, or type 1.5 into the contrast edit box.

 

Now the dialog will look like this:

 

Better-Colors-Dialog

 

Now you can click on OK.

 

Click here to learn more about this dialog.

 

Other topics:

Printing.
Settings.
Copying to the clipboard.
Saving multiple images.