Troubleshooting Photos –
Solutions...
This section consists of all the solutions that you would normally find by using the Search By Disaster visual search pages. If you already know how to describe a problem (or prefer to search by text descriptions), this page may provide a short-cut to the solution. You can also use the Google search tool.
- Auto-focus error – Camera has focused on something other than the intended subject.
- Blocky enlargement – A resized photo is a mass of squares of color.
- Blowup unprintable – Your software or a photo store tells you an enlargement can't be printed.
- Dark shadows – The subject (shot with flash) is surrounded by harsh shadows.
- Foreground blurred – The subject is a number of objects at varying distances from the camera and the nearest are unfocused.
- Fuzzy picture – The whole picture is 'soft' in focus and doesn't have much detail.
- Glare on glass - There is a massive reflection from the flash in glass or a mirror in the photo.
- Harsh outlines – Every object or color change has harsh lines around it, like the dark lines around cartoon images.
- Major color shift – The colors in a print changed dramatically from the top to the bottom.
- Overall red shift – The print has a strong red cast that is not visible in the monitor.
- Overall color cast – The scene had strong colors when shot, but the photo is dull and lifeless on screen.
- Poor print choices - Printed examples and descriptions of the results of not paying close attention to the choices in a Print dialog.
- Posterized color – Choosing the wrong file format can yield odd results.
- Puddled ink – A poor Print dialog choice can put more ink on the paper than it can handle.
- Ragged color blocks - Mishandling of JPEG files can produce unsightly artifacts in your pictures.
- Red eyes – The classic flash trap – easy to fall into, easy to avoid or fix.
