Need A Laugh?

with Wade. With ebay's zoom feature, I myself would be totally comfortable buying this coin if I was on the lookout for one. Looks like a nice old copper to me! All that person needed to do was make use of the cropping tool, and this thread wouldn't even exist

I think I might agree with their grade too.

Now the starting price... that's something to about.

It was a no sale. I guess the photos didn't grab anyone.

So do you get the new photos of the old coin... or the bad photos of the old coin... or the old coin in the original bad photos... or all of the above if you're the winning bidder?

No one seems to understand color balance when they post photos on ebay. You see lots of pink, blue and green coins listed.

At least it's in focus. I've seen coins so blurry, why even put a picture?

I think I'm envious of people with photo processing skill.

Rick

The seller should do the simple things to improve the quality of their image to start with. Helps sell an item if it looks good.




That was my job for many years, so I had to learn it, that or get fired! Not such a bad day, considering I spent my time editing and processing a quite attractive music star as a photographer on staff with Atlantic records. Sure helped me with all aspects of image processing. A lot of friends tell me I am some Photoshop expert, but in reality I only know probably 10% or less of what it can do. There are some tricks to learn though;

When needing to enlarge an image, specifically a jpg or other file that isn't a large or full resolution file only increase the image by 10%, do that over and over until it finally breaks up. The image will hold up better than just trying to enlarge it all at once.

Use curves not levels when trying to lighten an image. Every time you change the end points or black and white limits on a levels adjustment you are throwing away data.

Another trick to either lighten or darken in Photoshop is to make a copy of the layer and change the top layer to either screen or multiply in the layer pallet pop-up (where it would normally list "NORMAL" then adjust the opacity of the top layer until you get the look you want.

Use unsharp mask for for sharpening an image, but keep the levels low under 75% and the radius I usually stay at is .8 to 1.2 add some threshold to see if that helps keep areas from looking too grainy, then go to the pull down menu "EDIT" and select fade unsharp mask, to adjust how much to actually apply.

That's all I did for the most part, ( beyond rotating and adding them together into a single file) and it took less than 2 minutes from downloading them to my desktop, editing them, and then, uploading them to my photobucket account.

I'd prefer they didn't. More success for me.