{"id":46,"date":"2003-04-14T22:10:46","date_gmt":"2003-04-14T21:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:39:55","slug":"fixing_washed_out_images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2003\/04\/14\/fixing_washed_out_images.php","title":{"rendered":"Fixing washed out images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happens to everyone, while taking your photos you think they will come out great, and when you eventually get the prints back, or download the images you find they are washed out and totally dissapointing.<br \/>\nThis simple to do technique will hopefully be able to fix some of them.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/photography\/tutorials\/fixing_washed_outs\/1.jpg\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/photography\/tutorials\/fixing_washed_outs\/2.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOpen your image in Photoshop, and make sure its either a <b>RGB Color<\/b> or <b>Grayscale<\/b> image using the <B>Image->Mode<\/B> menu.<br \/>\nMake sure your layers palette is visible.  Duplicate the background layer using <b>Layers->Duplicate Layer&#8230;<\/b>.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/photography\/tutorials\/fixing_washed_outs\/3.jpg\"><\/center><br \/>\nOnce you have a duplicate layer set the <b>Blend Mode<\/b> to <b>Multiply<\/b>.  Setting the layer to Multiply will multiply darker areas of your image producing a darker overall image.<br \/>\nYou can change the intensity of the effect by sliding the <b>Opacity Slider<\/b> to the left until you get the desired result.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/photography\/tutorials\/fixing_washed_outs\/4.jpg\"><\/center><br \/>\nNow all that&#8217;s left is to flatten the layers and save the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happens to everyone, while taking your photos you think they will come out great, and when you eventually get the prints back, or download the images you find they are washed out and totally dissapointing. This simple to do technique will hopefully be able to fix some of them. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}