"Image Modifications Post-shot Adjustments may be made to your image in a photo editing program, so long as the modification is applied to the whole image. This includes levels, b&w conversion, hue/saturation, sizing/rotating, cropping etc. However, no filters (or non-Photoshop equivalent) maybe be applied to your image with the exception of sharpen and despeckle, the two of which are allowed. Absolutely no spot-editing is allowed; the use of any type of selection tool is prohibited."
Is "Equalize" (as in Photoshop) an allowed modification?
It better be legal, because I've used it. :-) I don't know if the menus in Photoshop are the same as Elements, but I assume anything in the Image and Enhance menus are legal.
It's in the adjustment menu NOT the plugin menu... so I would say yes... I just played around with it and it made my picture look like mud... what do you use this for?? I've never seen it before and I know Photoshop very well...
"The Equalize command redistributes the brightness values of the pixels in an image so that they more evenly represent the entire range of brightness levels. When you apply this command, Photoshop Elements finds the brightest and darkest values in the composite image and remaps them so that the brightest value represents white and the darkest value represents black. Photoshop Elements then attempts to equalize the brightness--that is, to distribute the intermediate pixel values evenly throughout the grayscale."
I use it for brightening up underlit photos and adding lightness back to a photo when I remove channels to make a black and white. For example:
1. Take a photo that is mostly green. 2. Go into levels and ditch the blue and green channels. 3. Remove Color - now you should have a pretty muddy-looking black and white image. 4. Equalize - your image probably just got a lot brighter and more detailed.
I did this for Special Delivery, except in that case I kept just the green channel.
I have had it turn images to mud, and I'm not always sure why it happens.
Thanks for responding! I didn't know what it really did (Thanks, Amphibian): but when I've played around with it, it is either really helpful or, like jeremya said, makes mud. It was helpful for my submission-wanna be... so I wanted to be sure. Thanks again.
So that's what is doing .... hmmmm .... I think I will stick to curves, levels and Hue/Saturation adjustments instead of letting the computer try work it out itself.. :-)
Originally posted by jeremya: So that's what is doing .... hmmmm .... I think I will stick to curves, levels and Hue/Saturation adjustments instead of letting the computer try work it out itself.. :-)
I usually can do what I need with Equalize, but I wish Elements had Curves.
