Newbie with D3200

[ssgtob1]

Hi all,
I just purchased a D3200 and shot all of these pics with the 18-55 kit lens. Post-processing was done in PaintShop Pro X6. Please let me know what you think.

 

[WayneF]

You're doing very well, off to a great start.

 

[Sandpatch]

Yep, I agree with Wayne -- very nice shots!

 

[Horoscope Fish]

I guess I'll be the bad guy and tell you the white balance is a little cool resulting in a bluish tint that needs to be adjusted for.

Like so:


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[ssgtob1]

Should I adjust it on the camera or in postprocessing?

 

[Horoscope Fish]

Should I adjust it on the camera or in postprocessing?

Most likely you'll have far more control doing it in post. The daisy got some sharpening as well...

Are you shooting JPG, or RAW, by the way?

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[ssgtob1]

That does look great....did you manually adjust it?

 

[Horoscope Fish]

That does look great....did you manually adjust it?

That was done in Adobe Camera Raw, a sort of pre-processing application that comes with Photoshop. While I've not used PaintShop Pro a great deal (that's the Corel product, right?) I'm sure it can do the same things I did, I just can't tell you how, exactly.

The main thing was adjusting the the white balance. I did bring up the exposure, increase the saturation and sharpen it, but those were just tweaks. Total time invested was less than two minutes.

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[ssgtob1]

I guess I need to learn a lot more about post....

 

[Horoscope Fish]

I guess I need to learn a lot more about post....

Well, we all had to learn. I'd suggest finding a good book on your software and starting there. The basic things you should know how to do are: Cropping, (correcting) Exposure, (correcting) White balance and how to properly Sharpen. If you're going to get into doing post processing, do yourself a favor and start shooting in RAW if you're not already.

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