» g3 tips and tricks
Here you will find various tips and tricks for the Canon G3. This includes optimal camera settings for various shooting environments.
[indoor sports action]
These instructions were taken from this site
- Open any image you wish to try the technique on. Make a duplicate of the image (Image>Duplicate). Close the original image.
- Lighten the image as follows: Image>Apply Image then in the dialog box that comes up change the bending mode to Screen and the Opacity to 100%. This will give you an appropriately overexposed image.
- Duplicate this overexposed image (Image>Duplicate).
- Blur this second image (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and in the dialog box use a Radius setting of 15 to 50 pixels the higher the pixel setting the blurrier the photo and the more painterly the image but you can go too far!). Experiment with different settings, for my tastes and for the size of my digital files (50-100 megabytes) a radius of about 25 pixels works perfect.
- Now select the move tool from the Photoshop tool bar (or just press v on your keyboard for quicker access to the move tool). Hold down the shift key and use your mouse to drag and drop the blurry image onto the sharp one (dont let go of the shift key until after you release the mouse button or the images wont be in perfect alignment).
- Bring up the layers palette in Photoshop (F7 is the keyboard shortcut). Under the word Layers in the layers palette will be a menu box of blending modes. Change the blending mode from normal to multiply.
- Now flatten the two layers by pressing CTRL+E or by clicking on the sideways triangle in the layers palette to select flatten image.
