A Peteena Christmas
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You still need to work on the focus of your photographs. the camera focused on the background, and Preteena isa bit out of focus in the shot.
If you have image processing software that came with the camera or something like Photoshop, you might want to try applying an unsharpen mask (which actually sharpens the image) or just a sharpen function to help bring her into better focus. At the same time, try Auto Tone, Auto Color Balance or whatever your software has to adjust the white balance of the image. The software is your darkroom, and you can do some amazing things in it these days.
You still need to work on the focus of your photographs. The camera focused on the background, and Preteena is a bit out of focus in the shot.
If you have image processing software that came with the camera or something like Photoshop, you might want to try applying an unsharpen mask (which actually sharpens the image) or just a sharpen function to help bring her into better focus. At the same time, try Auto Tone, Auto Color Balance or whatever your software has to adjust the white balance of the image. The software is your darkroom, and you can do some amazing things in it these days.
Off center subjects are a problem. If the subject is front and center, focus is better. But you don't want to do that all the time; it makes for rather boring pictures.
Photoshop is overpriced and way too much if all you need to do is a little color correction and sharpening. Photoshop Elements has 95% of what most people actually use and costs a lot less. It also has an easier learning curve.
Paintshop Pro (http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4130078) costs about the same as Photoshop Elements the last time that I checked, and it has more features like Photoshop. I have not personally used it because we use Photoshop at work, and I got a deeply discounted version from there. It has a large installed user base, though.
Did your camera come with any software? If so, there is a good chance that it can handle the basics, and you have it for "free". Even some freeware image management programs like Picasa have built-in editing capability that can help with most of the issues I see with your photos (http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=19566). They also have some interesting features that may not be found in Photoshop or Paintshop Pro.
With regards to focusing on off-center objects, you have two potential options. The first is to go to manual focus, focus on the primary, off-center subject and shoot. The second, if your camera has it, is to setup on a tripod with the primary subject centered, focus, use focus lock to maintain that focusing distance, and then recompose the scene with the primary subject off center. I strongly prefer the first. If your camera has an assist mode for manual focusing that uses the center, use a tripod, focus, and recompose.
I hope these suggestions help. I am sure others have their opinions and tricks as well.