Melinda Kerr

I feel a bit dumb but i still havent found out how to open my raw images in Photoshop. So that is where I have to start. I had it explained to me but it didnt make any sense. Maybe my brain is on the wrong side!!

Many thanks for doing this Mel.
A great help.

Great tutorial Melinda. It’s always helpful to see how others process their images.

They look a bit funny to me, Mel. What’s wrong with the channel mixer?

I guess I like colour too much – I almost never convert to B&W – but then I don’t have many pigmy photos. I tend to process less nowdays and rely more on what comes out of the camera. All a bit odd.

Too much effort otherwise. Anyway, the colours come up in camera if you get the lighting right, I suspect the B&W does to.

Though perhaps the pigmies didn’t hang around in the right light?

Thanks Mel – at last a tutorial that shows many of the functions in the RAW converter thus speeding up the whole process.
Will put a link to this from Photography 101 Tutorials

I dont use either of these programs.
But I still really enjoyed watching and listening to what you were doing and why.
Hopefully I can work out how to convert some of that info into the programs I use.Well done Melinda, great stuff.

Great tutorial Melinda, thanks for sharing.

thanks so much Melinda. I have learnt heaps. I generally use channels, but I think this is a lot better.

Anne

This is gold. Just as gold as you getting a youtube clip in your journal.
Thanks for sharing.

I had a look at your utube thingy. Good stuff. Have you tried CaptureOne? Or even some of the fancy HDR programs? They allow you lots of space to change the higlights or too dark areas.

Now I did not know about that little trick with masking slider in Camera Raw sharpening. Sweet.

Such an informative tutorial Melinda. Thank you.

Fantastic, thanks!

Great tutorial, Melinda.

Interesting tutorial Melinda, thanks :-)

Great tute. Have you checked out Kelby online training – you could become their next contributor!

Well explained Melinda – but you make me feel like a rank amature…

really interesting stuff…I love how you explained as you went (as well as loving your accent!) :D

A definite treasure…thank you so much!!!!

Brilliant job.. I would have liked to have heard what you were about to click on to automatically select around the eyes.. I thought was pretty neat how it automatically had traced them.. Overall a wonderful tutorial! Praises to you!