Week 1 images

[sjordan93436]

Thanks Greg, Greg, and Lee

I will rework the issues later today.

I noticed that the merry go round had specular highlights I ignored. It had multiple shadow areas.  I tried the CM wizard skin tones on the people.  Not a good idea as they were in the shadow and not important.  I lazily did not set a proper neutral.

[ggroess]

Hey...it's all good...we are just trying to get you going in the right direction....
Please re-work this one and re-post.

Greg

[sjordan93436]

Lee, re setting ACR.  You were right.  This is a newish computer, I had to set those defaults and explorer and bridge and windwos.  Now things are right.  Thanks.  I had explorer set to CS 5 (32) and CM installed as 64.  Who took my curvemeister?  That was not long to fix.

I reset to 0,0,0 and light to the right.

I always duplicate a layer and adjust the duplicate layer.  I had trouble using the smart filter mode.  It did not work.  Oh well.  Also when using the wizard, when you lighten the curve goes weird.  I post a screen shot later.  No big deal, as I do not use the wizard.

Also, besides the numbers and the look, I tend to _way_ over saturate the colors in LAB to see casts. 

Now for a few images.  I did all the adjustments from scratch.

Duck- I know I should have used the ankle, but I found a spot on the rock that seemed to work.

Balls.

Merry go round.  I hope it is better.  I went neutral shopping on the horses neck.



Kites.  Wow I looked at the red channel.  Those shirts are blue.  I picked a skin color on the neck, but without some sort of selection / painting ....


Ellis.  (after posting, I reposted with apply image for contrast and moved into LAB to lighten)

Flowers-  I messed around with HSB for the first, but returned to LAB.  (after I posted I noticed that I overdid the center of the flower and blew it out)

Finally, Statue. is rather noisy.  I did some apply image for luminosity.

I replaced merry go round with a brighter version.

[mikemeister_admin]

Hi Steve,

The Merry-go-round image looks much better ;)

When I first tried to work with CurveMeister as a Smart Filter I had the same trouble that you are having - luckily Greg helped me out; however, he's asleep right now so I'll pass on the advice that he gave me:

• Having duplicated your Background layer, convert the layer into a Smart Object (

Filter > Convert for Smart Filters).

Open CurveMeister, and make your adjustments.

Before clicking the 'Apply' button to return to Photoshop you need to click on the scroll next to the Curves palette (shot1.jpg)

When the scroll looks like shot2.jpg, click 'Apply'

When you double-click the 'CurveMeister' entry in Photoshop's Layers panel (to re-edit your curves), CurveMeister should remember your previous curve points. If it doesn't, then make sure that the scroll is still ticked (like shot2.jpg).

I hope that helps,
Lee :)

[sjordan93436]

Lee, once again thanks.  I will try it.  Two other annoyances (later)

Art, thanks.  Shadow highlights was a good idea.

Is it preferable to post a batch or one at a time?

[ggroess]

Yes, let's split these up into separate posts.  It makes the question answer process much cleaner...
I split Art's post off from the rest.

Greg