Pet photo editing by Pet Picassos
Posted by Picassos Designer on January 18th, 2010
When you order a portrait from Pet Picassos, we don’t just apply a filter and send it to press. Your portrait designer will spend anywhere from an hour to a day retouching your original pet photo so that your pet’s personality comes through without distracting details.
On every pet photo, we:
Remove red eye. Pet Picassos can remove the red, glowing appearance that camera flashes often cause on your pet’s eye. We will replace the black center of the eye and return the overall look to natural.
Add clarity, brighten, and enhance contrast and color. Photos can appear dull or have a color hue to them. This is all edited out to give an overall richness to the original image.
 Pet photo - before |
 Pet portrait with clarity |
Crop the photo. Most digital photos come in a 2:3 portion scale. We offer a variety of sizes and so, for example, a the image needs adjusting for a square frame. We can also custom trim a photo. We can remove most of the background so that your pet takes up most of the portrait. Or, we can zoom in on your animal’s face.
 Pet photo - before |
 Pet portrait - after cropping |
Increase the resolution. We will increase the resolution of you photo to its optimal size. A digital photo will tend to be in at a 72 dpi, we will adjust the photo to around 150dpi.
Rotate an image. If your photo is horizontal and is photographed vertical, we can rotate the image for you.
Remove a date stamp. Some cameras place a date stamp on the photo. We will remove that from the portrait.
If you like, we can also:
Remove the background. If you background has a lot going on or just is not something you want to see in your portrait, we can remove and replace it with a solid color or a requested image.
 Pet photo - before |
 Pet portrait - after removal |
Blur and darken an unwanted background. If you feel your photo would be better with the background subdued, just ask.
 Pet photo - before |
 Pet portrait - after |
Remove an object. If you photo has an object you want removed, like a pole, toy, or wire, we can remove and duplicate what would be behind that object.
 Pet photo - before |
 Pet portrait w/removal |
Add an object. If you want to add a favorite toy or another person to the photo, we can cut them out and place them together.
Imperfection retouching. We can remove moles, scars and facial blemishes, as well as smooth wrinkles or whiten teeth.
Add text to a photo. We can add a name, date or message on the portrait. There’s room on the front, side or back.
Change a color. If there is an object in the photo that you want changed to a different color, or you want the photo to have the color scheme of the room where the portrait will be hung.
Edit scratches and imperfection to a photo. We can remove random scratches or sunbursts. We can also remove the tiny dust particles often found on scanned photos.
Restore torn, stain or faded photographs. This is taken one step further than just general editing of scratches and imperfections.
Change a photo’s color scheme. A color photo to black and white photo, sepia photos, or an isolated color (where one object in the photo is in color and the rest is in black and white).
February 10, 2010
Norman Votaw
Great stuff as usual…
March 25, 2010
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