Curvemeister Forum

Hi Tanja,

Thanks for your comments and suggestions.

Yes, the church needs some work, or some work undone I should say. The first photo is the OOC JPEG, with neutral settings, the second the RAW file with my (attempted) enhancements. So, I can't blend them, but could desaturate the second image to some degree and blend it with the first with a mask. But I do like the colour differentiation in the stonework of the church in the second version, although the red-orange patches definitely need correcting. I'll see what I can do along those lines.

Cheers,
Art

Art,
Try this...

Take your image into CM and create a L channel mask as shown.  Then do the color moves; the bell shaped curve should hold off some of the super saturated colors for you.  Play around with this or an inverted version of it...

Greg

I corrected the red-orange patches in the church with a combination of  a CM mask and PS layer mask.
I inadvertently chose the even more saturated version to begin with, so the plant colours here have shifted England toward the tropics! But I'm into it, for now.

Cheers,
Art

A slight variation: Forgot that I had meant to brighten it a tad.

Looks good! I prefer the fist one.

Greetings, Tanja

Thanks Tanja -- in a month or so I'll revisit this image and probably desaturate the foliage a bit.  But I have to gain some distance from it.

Cheers,
Art

Here is my swing at this...I used an action I have that creates a butterfly comparison so you can see them side by side...

This is using the techniques I have shown over the course of the class, color expansion was through a R channel mask that had been curved to reduce the reds.
Inverted R channel with a bell curve.

Sharpened using PPW sharpening.

Greg

Thanks Greg, I'll give that a try.

Cheers,
Art

Thanks Tanja -- in a month or so I'll revisit this image and probably desaturate the foliage a bit.  But I have to gain some distance from it.

Cheers,
Art

Know what you mean and I hate it  :D.
Some pictures correction works right now and some needs time.
I love the first ones  ;D

Greetings, Tanja