In Depth with IrfanView - #6 - Altering Images in IrfanView pt.2

Hi this is Mike Callahan, Dr. File Finder and welcome back to part six of our 10-part special series on IrfanView. Today I’m going to conclude the section on altering your images with IrfanView.

So I’ve got an image loaded, we’ll click on image once again, we left off after decreased color depth. So one thing you can do to alter your images is to convert them to gray scale and see there everything goes gray. As always if you don’t like it you can just click undo.

Another thing you can do is make a negative, so you have a negative image. We’ll undo that. You can enhance the colors by moving, see we got more red in the background there, do that makes it a little bit more pale. So you can get lots of different effects by filling with the gamma correction, the saturation to alter your photos.

Now a histogram shows you all these different aspects of luminosity, red, blue and green. You can auto adjust the colors in which the program goes through and adjust the colors as it thinks they should be adjusted.

Another thing you can do and this is often needed with images that you’ve resize is to sharpen them. If you’re taking picture especially if people with blue eyes, you need to have red-eye reduction. We’ve gone through the section on eye effects. You can swap colors, this is kind of fun because you’re basically swapping you know red, green and blue for red, blue and green, red, green and blue for blue green and red. You get some pretty need effects that way. And again if you don’t like it you can always undo it.

And then you can import a new palette. So IrfanView in short gives you all kinds of ways to alter your photos by altering the colors, altering the palette, removing red eye, flipping, rotating, fine and custom rotating and lots more. And that’s all thereis to it.


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