Editing My Screenshots with PhotoScape

Today I’m going to write about the program I use to process/edit my screenshots from FFXIV. It’s called PhotoScape. http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php

It also has viewer, but I prefer Fast Stone Image Viewer instead (I used to have ACDSee but this new PC doesn’t have it and I didn’t want to use cracks or pirate software, so I changed to these because they are Free Ware).

Anyway, here’s an example of my screenshots:

Comparing the 3 pics together.

Now let’s see each of them. Below is the original screenshot from the game.

Using manual Bloom feature in PhotoScape (Bloom can make blur effect, saturation, and Levels of brightness), also adjusting Bright/Color => Luminance Curve, and then Filter => Region (Our of Focus) to make the background blurry, then manually use Tools => Effect Brush to blur the area where Filter didn’t cover.

When I’m lazy, I so the above but use auto Bloom (low) instead. Which sometimes makes skin colour too pale for my liking. But it’s great for scenery pics, especially if there are lights in the dark.