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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:21 pm
by mikemeister_admin
a horse,of course.GregM
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:53 pm
by mikemeister_admin
Interestingly, the Wizard didn't help on this photo.
I had no idea what color the barn wall was, but was fairly confident that the grass should be green.
Serendipitously, I discovered the description of "Lab and the Greens of Nature" on pages 47-49 of the book "Photoshop Lab Color" by Dan Margulis.
An ACV file with the suggested tweaks of LAB, even though I did not follow all of the theory, did most of the job in one click. To that I then increased brightness and contrast and slightly sharpened the focus to bring out the features in the horse's face.
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:01 pm
by ggroess
a horse,of course.GregM
Of Course Of Course....
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:06 pm
by ggroess
Interestingly, the Wizard didn't help on this photo.
I had no idea what color the barn wall was, but was fairly confident that the grass should be green.
Serendipitously, I discovered the description of "Lab and the Greens of Nature" on pages 47-49 of the book "Photoshop Lab Color" by Dan Margulis.
An ACV file with the suggested tweaks of LAB, even though I did not follow all of the theory, did most of the job in one click. To that I then increased brightness and contrast and slightly sharpened the focus to bring out the features in the horse's face.
Nicely done...but a bit cold...Try setting a neutral on one of the White surfaces. Yes, White can be used as a neutral as long as it is a reasonable white like the gutter. The grass looks better and the tonality of the image improves greatly. The rest is really spot on as the Brits might say....
Greg
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:14 pm
by mikemeister_admin
Now that Greg (G and M) is very interesting - feeling that my little grey cells are getting past it and I need a refreshed, I decided to curve in rgb because I noticed that the guttering was a different colour along it's length and also the down pipe (and you can only set one neutral in Lab [forgetting about Jacob's Ladder]).
So I set multiple neutrals and clocks next to them - the variation is quite alarming.
Don't we have fun!
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:33 pm
by mikemeister_admin
What I wanted to do was bring out the bars in the window and keep the insulators on the fence white.First I used the shad/light in PSE to accomplish this.Then in CM Lab I did a highlight threshold on the downspout extender.For the neutral I zoomed the image several times and found a spot the fence that read about -0,1.Treated wood has green moss and much magenta(oxidized chemical?) messing up your readings.Then a nudge to the saturation slider.In a second pass I cut back the green of the vegatation a bit ,it was an overcast day.I'm also posting a darker version of this image that I think is truer to the instant the shutter was clicked.GregM
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:51 pm
by ggroess
Now that Greg (G and M) is very interesting - feeling that my little grey cells are getting past it and I need a refreshed, I decided to curve in rgb because I noticed that the guttering was a different colour along it's length and also the down pipe (and you can only set one neutral in Lab [forgetting about Jacob's Ladder]).
So I set multiple neutrals and clocks next to them - the variation is quite alarming.
Don't we have fun!
So which neutral is making the fence look too red?? What an interesting exercise. Zog Try a straight By the Numbers correction using 1 highlight and 1 shadow as well as a suspected neutral. That's my next move...
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:39 pm
by joann
Here's my version. Since I don't know what I'm doing I used the wizard. I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I'm sure it could be better.
JoAnn H
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:47 am
by mikemeister_admin
Julie,I think you got the color and detail just right for the horse's face and the grass.GregM,the unofficial one
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:58 am
by joann
Do you mean JoAnn?