How to Reverse Opacities in the Lens
Digital cameras are a modern photographer's best friend. Though some claim that the quality of old-fashioned photos taken on film is better, a digital camera allows the photographer to view the image before it is finalized and distributed. It also allows for easy upload of images into photo editing software. Digital cameras also allow photographers to spot imperfections in their images and fix them immediately. Differences in lighting or distance of a shot can affect the opacity of a camera lens. A photographer who knows how to use a camera can fix that opacity before shooting the next set.
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Instructions
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Turn on your camera and find the "Settings" function. This will probably be one of the options listed when you press the camera's "Menu" button or equivalent.
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Find the "Gate Mask" option and turn it on. When you look into the camera's viewfinder, an object may appear closer or further away than it actually is and this may skew the image or its perspective. This may also produce a level of opacity in the camera's lens. The "Gate Mask" function allows you to compensate for these disparities.
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Go back into the "Settings" menu and open the "Display Options" list. In this list, you will find opacity settings which you can use to either produce greater transparency or opacity in your camera's lens.
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Open your image in your photo editing software if your image still has a high opacity.
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Click on the "Layers" option from the navigation bar at the top of the page. Then, select the layer that you want to fix. A panel should now open.
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Open the option that says something like "Pixel Mask." Once you open this, you will see a menu with an option that allows you to increase or decrease the opacity of your image.
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Tips & Warnings
If you are shooting outside, bright sunlight can produce a sort of blur over the lens that creates opacity in the resulting image. To eliminate this problem, go back into the "Settings" menu and select the option that says something like "Exposure Value." The default setting in this menu is 0, but you can decrease the value into the negative numbers to decrease that blur. Alternately, you can go back into the "Settings" menu and find the "White Balance" option. Then, select the sunny option; this will help your camera adjust itself to the light level.
Be careful not to adjust exposure values too much; an image with too little light can be just as unclear as an image with a large amount of light.
References
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