ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 32 ADJUSTMENT OF A DIGITAL PHOTO
From: "charles eaves" (charles.eaves@no-spam)
Subject: Adjustment of a digital photo?
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 20:40:57 -0700


I have a new Canon S50 and I took some photos of my son riding gocarts.
In the S50, before the camera saves the photo, you can magnify and adjust(move the picture left to right, up and down). If you go back later, you can magnify the move the photo around to where you would lie it to be but you can't resave it. Yo have to adjust the picture at the time that you take it.

When I magnify and move an image on the back of the camera, I see more parts of the photo(left ot right and up and down) than what is displayed on my computer.

Example, in one photo on the computer, the back of a gocart is cut off. If I move the photo around that is on the back camera lcd, you can see the rest of the gocart and alot more.

How do I get PSE2 to show me the rest of the cut off backend of the gocart or can it be done? I would also like to magnify it slightly.

If I could do this, this photo would be a keeper. Right now, it could be trashed.

I am new to PSE2 so be kind to me.



















From: "Chuck Snyder" (csnyder@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Adjustment of a digital photo?
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:13:36 -0700

Charles, that's a really nice camera - I hope you enjoy it!

After you've opened the image in Elements, have you zoomed out on it so you can see the whole image on the screen without moving the horizontal and vertical sliders? If so, and the image is cut off, the problem lies not with Elements but with the camera and its software. I've observed a similar phenomenon with my Canon G2, where the image on the LCD showed that a whole object was captured but the downloaded image was missing a slice. You might want to go to the Canon forum on dpreview.com and see if anyone there has encountered the same kind of cutoff with the S50. Obviously, if the image downloaded from the camera has been somehow truncated, Elements won't be able to see it.

While it's usually a good idea to fill as much of the frame of your LCD as possible when shooting, it sounds like you may want to back off just a bit to make sure you don't lose some important details. The good news is that your camera has 5 megapixels to work with, which gives you some leeway to zoom out a little, take your shot, crop when editing and still have enough resolution to make some very fine prints.

Chuck

From: "charles eaves" (charles.eaves@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Adjustment of a digital photo?
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 04:20:43 -0700

Thanks to Chuck & Byron.
Sorry to say but the picture was cutoff.
I was hoping to expand that photo but elements can't do it if it is not there.
I wrote dpreview and learned alot there.
I tried resizing that photo but the left side was still cutoff.

Thanks again!