With Aurora, I can now use those pictures. Aurora is a desktop software for PCs(a Mac version is coming soon) that mimics the ability of the human eye to process images. Within minutes, you can have the dark picture that you took look more like what you saw in real life.
This is a side by side comparison from Aurora demonstrating what is possible with just a few clicks of your mouse.

This is what your screen will look like. The original picture will be at the bottom center and then you have options at the top to make your photo lighter or darker.

Once you've decided which lighting looks the best, you just hit save. It does NOT overwrite your original picture. It uses your same file name with _au at the end. I used an editing software once that would save over my original picture if I didn't change the name. Aurora does it for you.
Aurora also offers an online backup storage that will keep 20 GB of photos safe for you online. This service is only $4.95 and your pictures will be kept safely in case anything were to happen. If you don't have a safe place for your priceless photos, this is a great deal!
I would recommend Aurora to anyone that takes pictures! All I have to do is bring it up and my pictures are on the screen ready to edit. Like I said, I do have tens of thousands of pictures so it does sometimes take a minute to bring up all of the pictures in a file, but it is only a minute.
Here is an example with one of my pictures. This was at my son's 1st birthday and this picture was way too dark. You can see for yourself the difference that Aurora makes!


You can also change your photo to black and white, change the color strength, fix red eye, change the crispness, and the color warmth. With Aurora, you can take those pictures that you thought you'd never use and edit them to have forever!
Buy It!
Aurora is available for download on PCs(a Mac version is coming soon) for $19.95!
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Aurora is giving TEN of my readers a download of Aurora.
To enter, visit Aurora and tell me anything that you saw or learned! This is required and must be done before the extra entries count!
EXTRA ENTRIES!
You can do any of these things for an extra entry. Make sure to leave a separate comment for EACH thing you do.
1- For TWO extra entries, blog about this giveaway. Link it back to my blog and Aurora.
2- Follow my blog. Go over to my right sidebar and click on Follow This Blog! Current followers count too! Leave me a comment letting me know that you do!
3- For TWO extra entries, subscribe to my blog via email.
4- Follow me on twitter AND tweet about this giveaway. You can copy and paste: Aurora Photo Edit Giveway-TEN WINNERS @twoofakind http://tinyurl.com/csb4bt
5- Enter the Boob Maternity Giveaway.
6- Favorite my blog on Technorati.
7- Follow Aurora on Twitter.
Contest ends at 11:59pm EST on May 20th when I will draw a winner at random. PLEASE leave your email address if it is not visible on your profile. I will notify the winner and they will have 36 hours to respond!
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«Oldest ‹Older 1 – 200 of 358 Newer› Newest»It says you can reduce red eye in a simple way! That would be awesome. It never fails that in every picture someone has red eye.
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This looks like an awesome tool. It says you can adjust color strength, crispness and warmth. No more washed out color pics!
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Aurora allows you to email, print, and connect directly to your favorite photo sharing, social networking and accounts from within Aurora. We make it easy to share select photos online on sites like Flickr, SmugMug, Picasa and Facebook.
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I love this:Aurora's pop-up image selector lets you see your photos edited in a range of different ways; lighter to darker; softer to crisper; cooler to warmer—you get the picture—and lets you pick exactly the way you want your photo to look.
On my current photo editor I lose track of what I'm doing and what the original looked like. Love this feature!
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Aurora makes it easy to upload and organize your photos online!!
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Since this is a great idea - I've blogged about it to 1) get you more traffic and 2) give others the opportunity to pick up this great tool.
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They make it easy to share select photos online on sites like Flickr, SmugMug, Picasa and Facebook! Thats awesome as I practically live on Facebook!
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I learned that Suddenly anyone can create stunning B&W, High Dynamic Range, High Contrast photographs with a single click. For more fine-tuning simply apply a style, tune the parameters in the tools and save that as a new Style to make it your own.
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I love the red eye fixing ability!
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Wow! I am so in love with this program! I have never heard of it before but I am totally downloading the free trial right now. I too take tons of photos and it breaks my heart when the colors are off or there are shadows, I love that Aurora corrects it all!
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I entered your Boob giveaway.
I learned that the free trial is fully functioning! I'm going to have to try this out. Would love to win!
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I'm now following Aurora (LightCrafts) on twitter!
they also have a program called lightzone, which is available for mac, win,or linux!
They spent years studying how the human eye sees things when developing Aurora.
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I love all the editing choices! I would love to edit some of my pictures to match how I want to scrapbook them and this is perfect!!
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I entered the Boob Maternity giveaway - and thanks so much for directing me since I'm expecting baby #4!
It will reduce the red eye!
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I love how easy it is to share!
With the software, you can email photos to friends and family...print photos directly to your printer...and you can upload (and manage) your images on your Facebook, Flickr, Picasa or SmugMug accounts.
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I read that LightZone supports every camera ever made. That's nice to know.
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Besides being able to add crispness, which is something my pictures always seem to lack, I think instantly being able to add light would be amazing. (It was really fun to play with that with the pictures at the top.)
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That is cool that there are options for pro photographers. I've been a pro photog for ages. Cool stuff.
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The difference light zone makes is huge! I have tons of dark pictures that could benefit from ligh zone, and I read that it won't hurt your pictures!
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I learned that Aurora allows you to easily import photos from your camera or computer
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Hard to choose between reducing red eye the simple way and the light zone! Thanks
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it offers red eye reduction
I love photo editting software..this is just what I need, down to the color adjusting and red eye removal!
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I learned that it has a relight tool that is like turning on a light inside the photo.
I follow your blog.
I liked looking at the before and afters in the gallery.
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it brings out the best in your pictures
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I found out there are tons of things you can do with aurora! Like you can straighten, adjust color strength, crispness and warmth, crop, zoom and adjust red-eye! Sweet!
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I like the red eye fixer. But what I really like is it keeps the orginal picture even after you fix your coloring.
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I really like that Aurora allows you to easily import photos from your camera or computer, re-arrange and re-name them, then tag and rate favorites for easy viewing and retrieval.
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Aurora helps keep your photos safe with our optional Aurora Online Backup service by Amazon.com. It helps you store your photos safely out of harm’s way. You can store thousands of photos for less than $5 per month.
How cool is this? Im always worried im going to lose my photos forever! grove79 at aol.com
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I was happy to learn that Aurora brings out the best of my photos. I have pictures from my daughter's Baptism that I was sad to see later were too dark and not of good quality to keepsake this precious day. I see that light can brighten my favorite picture and it can be suitable for framing after all!!! Gotta get this. Blessings, Stefanie Hartman fhartman@frontiernet.net
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There are a ton of great features with this photo software, but I'll go with the red-eye removal feature and the ability to adjust color strength, crispness and warmth :)
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would love to try anthing new for up loading pictures. This would be neat.
I learned that they host an online forum for LightZone.
This is a fantastic product.
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I love the fact that you can erase red eyes! I always have trouble getting rid of red eyes from my photos. This would be a great tool!
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they spent years studying how the human eye processes images, and built Aurora to mimic that ability so that edited photos reflect the actual memory you captured
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I like Aurora and receive stuff from family occasionally, but I really love the interface for http://www.myotherdrive.com and always send out my files from there. I also like how they allow you to share photos to any number of people, not just with the public.
It lists a lot of nice features including the ability to share and organize. But, I have some pictures with red eye and warmth problems that I'd like to try it out on.
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I learned that it's easy to adjust color and I like all those before and after pictures in the gallery.
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I think the organizing and viewing options sounds great. I always have trouble finding that certain picture and have to search for it. Also the red eye reduction feature is something I really need. This would be wonderful to have.
Just being able to organize and have multiple tools would be such a help as I am such a klutz at digital photography and have so much to learn.
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Aurora allows you to email, print, and connect directly to your favorite photo sharing, social networking and accounts from within Aurora. Thanks for the chance.
I love that it stores your photos and that you can pay to have them backed up!
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I learned that Aurora was designed to be intuitive in its use which is great for me.
I could see what a difference this would make in the photos I take.
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I learned that we can straighten, adjust color strength, crispness and warmth, crop, zoom and adjust red-eye in a simple, intuitive and visual way.
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