How to make white even whiter

[Anne V]

I need help BAD

If a take a picture on a white surface I would like to bring out the white even more - how do I do that ???

Hope that someone will help me

Best regards
Anne

[Tom]

Hi,

White is white, you can't have more than white. The RVB values are 255, 255, 255.
255 plus 0, it does 256 colors maximum in Black and white.
Only a gray color can become a white one, with brightness or gamma correction.

The secret of the white color : the same than the secret to view a good moovie :
White is whiter when the surroundings are darker.
But it cames from the masters of chiaroscuro, such as Caravaggio.

[Anne V]

Let me explain myself better.

I breed leopard geckos, therefore the pictures I show will be of them:

My pictures look like this:


Others look like this - as the tampered with the white colour


They enhance the white in some way.........

Do you understand my question now?

[Tom]

Oh yes, from begining i've understood,

but there are several parts in my answer, especially for the gray colors, and all parts are interrelated.
Anyway, the best method to integrate a knowledge is to practise and exercise.

Other way but not necessarily the best : a white balance adjustment plugin at this page : http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm



But for my opinion, the second one was cut out and pasted on a full white background