Let's see how beautiful you can make this one....

[ggroess]

Here is my swing at the pretty boy....

First problem I saw in the image was the green hair on his underside.  I also had a blue cast in the snout I wanted to get rid of.  So with 2 different colors to tackle I used a "By The Numbers" approach in RGB to begin this correction.

Shot1 shows the selected S/H/N points I chose for the image.
Shot2 shows the BTN correction for these selected points.
Apply the changes and close CM

After I had the image in a better color balance I then wanted to make the greens and yellows come out more.  I opened the image in CM using the LAB space this time and adjusted the green and yellow parts of the image as shown.  Shot3

More in the next post.
Greg

[ggroess]

Pretty Boy Continued...

After the color was pumped up to my liking I then applied the changes and exited CM.  I then went on to sharpening.  I used the High Pass filter with the settings shown in Shot 4 and Shot5.

The finished Image...

[mikemeister_admin]

This image in PS on my monitor shows a touch more red and a bit more separation between the red  and black hairs on the back.
I tried to keep the tips of the tusks as tint free  as possible.GregM

[mikemeister_admin]

Hi - what a difficult image. 

She/He looks a little drab, so I added a spot of colour to bring out the hairs all over that lovely body.  No sharpening as I reckoned there was enough with the colour difference.

Zog
PS. I didn't know you had started the next course or I would have joined you earlier - good luck

[ggroess]

Hi Chris...
Glad you took a swipe at this one.  He does kind of grow on you...
As I look at the others I feel like I dropped the ball on the blue channel.  This may require another revisit...

I guess that is the beauty of this part of the class...I get to show that I'm not perfect either....

Thanks for the good wishes...
Greg

[kessi]

Hi Greg,
My rendition.
cheers
kessi

[mikemeister_admin]

I tried to place the image and got some wierdness [img][/img] - to me that is.  And PS Elements doesn't have a File-Cop.  So...no image to accompany this.
I greatly reduced the green in the background.  I was hoping to find a color space that allowed me to reduce the saturation in the green but couldn't. So I selected yon porker, reversed the selection and reduced saturation.  Having selected our friend I tried to give him a little more contrast and oomph.

[ggroess]

Mark you can download Gadwin Printscreen for free and that will enable you to screen grab for the class.  I'll post some more information regarding that tomorrow.

Greg

[ggroess]

Keesi,
that is one Green Piggy...We'll get that figured out.  no worries...

Greg

[kessi]

Oink, oink,
I soo agree with you.  This course couldn't have come at a better time.

cheers
kessi