What can I do to fix these pics?

rjmayes34

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I am finally able to get close up pics of my corals but I am still having some problems.... First, my pics seem to be focusing on part of the coral but blurring the rest. My second problem is that I guess I don't know how to use photo editing programs to fix my white balance. Any advice would help. These pics were taken on a Cannon 20D 80 shutter 2.8 aperture.
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The duncan should be a light purple/pinkish color with a neon green center and the acan should be a purple with a bright orange/red stripe and almost neon green.
I have tried messing with the photo editor to fix the colors but every time I change one color it messes up the other colors.

This is the image that i tried fixing and the colors are still not as vivid.
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To get more in focus, get down to f8 or f9.5. Did you shoot in raw? if so what program are you using?
 
Yeah I shot them in RAW and I tried using Picasa and Pixlr. Pixlr seems to have more options to change the colors but when I finally get one color looking right, the other colors become off.
 
RAW photos straight out of the camera are generally going to look much more bland than a JPG photo, because they won't have any extra saturation or contrast applied. You'll need a decent RAW photo editor. Photoshop Elements has a good editor, and won't break the bank. Lightroom is another very good option, but it's a bit more expensive (I believe the newest version is selling for around $150 on Amazon, which really isn't a bad price at all).

For your "focus" problem (it's actually a problem with depth of field), Misled is spot on. If you do a web search for "Depth of Field Calculator", it will help you get the right aperature for the depth of field you need. With macro shots, the f/8-9.5 that Misled suggested will often get you decent depth of field, but each situation can be a little different.
 
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