I found directions to make a simple light box so I went out and got the stuff and set it up. My pics normally suck because of bad lighting and laziness, but hopefully having this will help some. Got it set up right here in the office! I need more background stuff to use! Here's the thread with the light box: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=328550&page=1&pp=20
Two suggestions: 1. Get a gray card and meter off that 2. Get some image editing s/w - simple - and use it to edit the Hue and Saturation
I took this image, cropped it slightly, altered the hue & saturation once, compressed image from 745kb to 15.4 kb, and uploaded to server. Entire process took less than 5 mins. It's difficult to get the proper color balance directly from the camera and the size (in kb) without compression iis usually too large to load quickly on the internet.
Its your WHITE BALANCE!You are taking pics with a flourescent source and the camera is set for daylight Day light tends to be more blue ( from the open sky), incadescents have a warm color temperature( Amber )sodium vapor lights are more yellow. flourescents produce more greenish.If you set the color balance with a standard setting on the camera, it adds in the opposite color to compensate . Set the camera white balance to flourescent than take a picture in bright sunlight , it will be shifted magenta ( oposite of green) Learn to set a custom white balance using a white card underthe light you are using. I use an old version of photoshop elements ( 2.0 they're up to 5 now) , it has a "remove color cast" function I'm sure paintshop has something similiar, you click on a portion of the picture that should be white it figures outhe correct color shift to clean up the colo ALSO BECAREfFUL what other room lights are on....you may be picking up flourescents(green) from your ceiling lights...( I've spent alot of time behind a camera , was headed that direction at one time)..
