Steve Sun Moon Lake

[ggroess]

That's got it...Wonderful job...
Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

And a touch of sharpening for the ripples on the water and you're done.GregM

[sjordan93436]

Thanks GregM.  (it is confusing to have two Gregs here, but no one has ever said that)

[mikemeister_admin]

Greg G--OK--I know there are no dumb questions, but I think this is laughably basic and I shoudl know, but here goes:

Can you explain what you meant/saw when you made this comment:
The Red curve line is telling you you have a problem...Nice of it to do that  ::)...you have created an impossible tonal range and CM is telling you that. .  Sounds like something I should watch out for, but perhaps the L channel isn't big enough for me to see what you mean.  I see it's crooked...

Thanks.  Learned a lot by reading this exchange!

[sjordan93436]

Greg (G or M) probably have a better answer.  My L curve went down for a while. Perhaps someone would want that sometime, but usually it is an error.  In my case it was an error.

As we curve around, there are things showing up in the curves.  worms?  I need to read the wiki to figure more out.   

[ggroess]

Steve and Rhonda,

The red line in the L channel is the Curve Guard feature of CM.  When you twist the curve too much or create a color that is not real...the curve line turns red.  shot1

The color worms are the dancing lines that stick to the curve line when you move your mouse across the image. 

What is happening is the color under the mouse at any given second is being displayed on the curve grid and the length of the line is the range of the color in the image.  i.e. if the color worm is green and it is along most of the green channel then green is a very large part of the image and any adjustments to that area of the curve will effect a large part of the image.

In shot2 I have the mouse on an image and the arrows and circles point to the color worms on the RGB master curve.  If I look at each channel I would see the color worms in the corresponding positions in each color channel.

Greg