‘Tis the season! Seems like the moment you swallow that last bite of Thanksgiving pie, people are out for the holiday deals. Before we all get swept up in the deals, I’d like to reflect that – as of yet – nobody messes with Thanksgiving. I pray it stays that way. It’s the last holiday not tainted by commercialism; I love that Thanksgiving is all about food and family.
Okay, back to the deals! 
This week I want to introduce you to Krome Photos. Krome Photos takes the photos you make and edits and organizes them for you. No time to learn Photoshop? Editing software too expensive or too time consuming to learn? Or perhaps just the sheer number of photos to tag and edit are overwhelming?
“All year long, people take hundreds or even thousands of photos to capture memories of their vacations, weddings, birthday parties and everyday moments. For many people, they do not have the time to edit and sort though all of these photos, leaving them to just sit on their camera or computer. To solve this, Krome Photos is your personal photo manager, offering editing, enhancing, sharing, and back-up of your favorite memories.
With Krome, your uploaded photos are hand-selected and edited by a professional photo editor for color correction, red-eye correction, cropping, and artistic retouching. Whether it’s one or a hundred photos, Krome’s editors will make your photos stand out, allowing anyone’s photos to look professional. Photos can also be tagged for easy sorting and organization in your Krome dashboard, and easily shared to your friends and family through Facebook, Shutterfly, Kodak, HP Snapfish or email. Give your first 25 pictures the full Krome Treatment for free and see how the Krome Treatment gives photo memories the attention they deserve.”
Get started using Krome & get 100 of your photos edited for $2.50 (steal!) by visiting their Get Started page.
Krome photos is giving 2 Sweet Shot Tuesday participants 200 credits – each worth $50. How many photos are unorganized, untagged, unedited and stuck in your computer?
We’d love if you’d share this on twitter or Facebook:
Win $50 in pro photo editing & organizing with Krome Photos: http://my3boybarians.com/2010/11/sweet-shot-tuesday-32/
but the only requirement is your participation in Sweet Shot Tuesday. I can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to.
Just linked up my Thanksgiving Feast post, hehe, more food photos, that’s right!!
This is an awesome giveaway you have going on, I am soo bad at editing, it would be awesome to have a pro edit my photos for me!!! I tweeted about it!!
Holy Wow. This place sounds like a dream! Editing is my stressful nightmare! I am so wretched at it!
Sounds like a great resource for many in the Sandwich Generation busy with caring for elderly parents and helping with grandkids! Thank you for this fun contest – I have, indeed, tweeted it.
darcy! i’m only through about 25% of your 31 days and i’m already seeing a difference in my shooting… i used shutter mode for my sweet shot this weekand was SO pleased. .. i only shoot in aperature usually- i was psyched to see the control i had with graininess {or getting rid of it!} and still getting the exposure i wanted. can’t thank-you enough!
So glad it’s helpful! xo!
Hmm, I need to check this out. Thanks Darcy for being such a gracious hostess each week and sharing so many ways to encourage us out here.
Blessings to you and your family3
Thanks Susan. xo!
Wow. Those before and after photos are awesome!
So I have a question and maybe you can shoot me some links if you know of any. We are on vacation right now in Beautiful, snowy Central Oregon. WOW, talk about a challenge with shooting in manual!!!! Any tips for taking pics in snow. I was trying to get the right white balance but it just wasn’t working for me. I’ve just been shooting on Auto because it’s, well, just easier at the moment.
I would love some thoughts.
Hi Kirstin, You’ll get good photos by overexposing a snow scene by 2/3 to 1 full stop. Some cameras have the ability to overexpose by 2/3 of a stop or 1 full stop while in Program or similar automatic mode (Canons have this feature)… How much to overexpose depends on how much snow there is in the scene… Cameras try to average the scene to a middle gray (a bit darker than the background in this post). Which works well when you have bright skies and dark ground. But when you have a white ground the camera tries to make it gray. Good luck. I ended up doing a lot of editing after taking photos in the snow… Check out Krome Photos for those photos that turned out too dark
Eduardo
Thanks Eduardo for helping out! Glad you stopped by!
So – your camera takes the sum of your photo and tries to find everything from light to dark in it. The problem with snow shots is that there are a lot of pixels in the highlights, and usually not many in the darks. So your camera (wrongly) assumes all those pixels must be in the middle (midtones). And often will make them gray.
That’s why Eduardo is right. To compensate for your camera guessing all that white is gray – you have to overexpose OR set custom white balance outside before you shoot. Try a tree, gray puddle, rocks, etc if you don’t have a gray card or expo disk / balens.
Like Eduardo, snow pics often require a bit of time in post production for me.
Happy snow days!
Darcy
Thanks to both of you. I’m going to keep working on it. I’m here another week and a half (C: That was a HUGE help!!!
Hi Darcy.
Thank you for hosting again this week, and for letting us know about Krome. Do you know how long it takes me to edit 100 photos? Of course you do, but definitely a lot longer than $2.50 worth!! This may be a very viable option for some of my older photos that have been sitting unedited for years.
I hope you have a fantastic week!
xo*tricia
Tricia –
Yes, I know! It’s a great deal, admittedly I charge more than that per image when I offer pro editing, so getting to try a whole batch for that is incredible.
Thanks for sharing our services with your Blog readers! Please keep visiting us and using our services; we are constantly improving them to keep satisfying our Krome Users, making their photos exceptional!
Wow. Those before and after photos are awesome!