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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 7:19 pm
by ggroess
Welcome to the First week of the Curvemeister 101 class.
This week is about showing off what the plugin can do and various ways you can add it to your workflow.
For many of you this will be new territory but for others this is a chance to show off.
Take this image as far as possible and please describe what you have done to the image to improve it.
Have fun!
Greg
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:26 am
by mikemeister_admin
Step 1 inLab,find a neutral and a shadow point
Step 2 on a new layer,after selecting sky, move highlight threshold a bit closer to body of histogram,keeping balance
with foreground
Step 3 deselect sky and raise saturation to 1.19 GregM
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:49 pm
by ggroess
Greg,
Seems like the shadows are a bit too blue...
BTW
I am going to start this out by posting my Rough out notes. I have taken to making notes right on the image as a new layer and keeping that layer until the end. It helps me to focus on the things I identify as needing adjustment and allows me to review at the end to make sure I hit all the items I noted when I started out.
Greg
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:11 pm
by ggroess
I decided to see what would happen if I tackled the contrast first. The image looks much better after using Curvemeister on the individual channels and replacing the blue channel which was quite flat with a copy of the red channel that I had curved to increase contrast.
I also fixed the horizon problem with a slight crop...
More to come....
Greg
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:51 pm
by sjordan93436
Set highlight and shadow
contrast per channel
color boost with CM.
Masked the sky and contrast and color boost in LAB
MMM latest version. But it left the yellow and red over the top. (perhaps it still is)
Lab pinned the upper half of A and B and reduced the positive a and b only.
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:29 pm
by ggroess
I would agree it is over the top.
This points out a weakness in the MFM script.
You have less control over the results and need to run it multiple times with slight selection changes to get a result you like.
Stay tuned and see if we can do better....
Greg
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:54 pm
by mikemeister_admin
Image with a little blue removed from and a little contrast added to the midsection.GregM
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:04 am
by ggroess
Still kinda Blue in the shadows Greg...
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:09 am
by ggroess
The Next step is a "By the Numbers" correction in RGB.
Open the image and copy the background layer.
Open Curvemeister and Correct in RGB by the numbers so that the shadows and the highlights are neutral or near neutral.
Pay close attention to the clouds as they are going to cause you to have problems later.
The clouds are pretty bright and very close to the highlight area in brightness...
They are however far enough away that you can get most if not all of the color cast out of them.
Next Step Color Boosting...Where we can meet or beat MMFM...
Greg
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:18 pm
by leeharper_admin
Here's another swing at it...
I took lots of screenshots to show how I corrected the image - I'll upload those in a little while. Greg - good call on the horizon, I would have missed that!
Cheers,
Lee.