Adjustment
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more medium format Holga goodness / untouched by an Adobe product
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TIP: A very useful colour adjustment tip
by Alan RodmellI am currently working through my third CS3 tutorial and I picking up a ton of useful tips for my photographic workflow. I just HAD to s…
I am currently working through my third CS3 tutorial and I picking up a ton of useful tips for my photographic workflow. I just HAD to share this one with you. Regarding Hue/Saturation. When you overdo this on an adjustment layer in your photos your detail is lost and it looks really blocky. Sometimes you just can’t get the saturation adjustments you need. Here’s how its done – Thank you to Chris Orwig for this one. 1) Open you image and convert it to LAB colour using: Image – Mode – Lab Colour 2) Create a curves adjustment layer 3) In the Curves dialog box ALT-click the grid to get a more detailed display 4) Go to the a – channel 5) Pull the black slider on the bottom of the grid into the right just one grid line (in this example although you can play!) 6) Pull the white slider opposite into the left by the same one grid line 7) Switch to the b channel and repeat. 8) Check out your image. This method actually increases saturation in tones you couldn’t even see that you had. Its excellent for autumn leaves or rivers and waterfalls. 9) When your done exit Curves dialog and convert your image back to RGB (select to Flatten in the pop up prompt) 10) Your all done. This is by far the best tip I’ve discovered so far. I tried it out of interest on a shot from this afternoon and it brought out lovely greens in Autumn leaves and a lovely hazy blue on water and waterfalls. Try it – I think you will like it! :D
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An ‘adjusted’ version following the Living Christianity critique forum submission. / / © photogenique (dave peddie): using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action.
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Working Smarter Using Adjustment Layers In Photoshop
by Alison JohnstonAdjustment layers are a great way to work in Photoshop, they give you the flexibility to go back and alter adjustments on the fly – makin…
Adjustment layers are a great way to work in Photoshop, they give you the flexibility to go back and alter adjustments on the fly – making sure that you don’t have to lose any of the work you have done by undoing steps to correct an error. Another positive about adjustment layers is that they add very little size to your file, which is a bonus if you don’t have 8 gigs of RAM at your disposal :-) I’m going to give you a kind of example here using a Hue Saturation adjustment layer to add colour back into an image. What you need to bear in mind is that it applies to all of the adjustments that are available under adjustment layers. Adjustment layers can also be useful when using blending modes on a single image without having to duplicate the image and add to the file size. Try this one yourself. Open an image, duplicate it of course :-) and close the original – now go to the little ying yang looking symbol at the bottom of the layers palette and click on it to bring up the menu – click on levels for now. When the dialogue box opens, click OK without making any adjustments, then pick a blend mode …. lets say multiply …. your image will now have used itself, to darken itself …. or you could say that you have used the image to darken the image without having to duplicate the background and then apply a blend mode. Take a look at your file size ….. You can also turn the adjustment layer on and off, reduce the opacity, add a mask to darken certain areas, use a gradient to edit the mask or perhaps a brush. There are several ways that you can do just about anything in Photoshop, and bringing back colour into an image is no exception. By default photoshop has the history set at 20 states of undo, so if you reach 21 states any previous work will not be available to go back and edit without losing all of the work you have done. You can change the amount of history states available to you by going to Edit>Preferences>Performance and at the top right hand side you will see History States | Cache Levels – just change the history states to a higher amount if you like. Using adjustment layers, rather than permanent adjustments, will give you much more flexibility in your editing capabilities. Getting into the habit of saving your image as a .psd file right from the outset and then remembering to ‘save’ along the way … press Ctrl + S or go to the top menu bar and press ‘save’, will make sure that you are never disappointed if PS freezes or your computer has a hissy fit and dies. Lets get back to the tut :-) I’m going to add some colour back into an image that I have used a Hue/Sat adjustment layer to desaturate. Why not just go to the top menu bar and use Image>Adjustment>Desaturate you might be asking – because it is a permanent adjustment – one that I may decide that I don’t want there in the future and doing this change with an adjustment layer gives me the option of turning it on and off using the little eye icon, going back in and adding some saturation back into the image etc., If I try to do that 25states later using the permanent adjustment I will lose all of my later work. There are also several ways to add colour back into an image. You can start with your B&W image, place a new layer above that, choose a colour and fill the layer, change the blend mode to colour, soft light etc., add a mask, invert the mask, and then start adding back in the colour – but what if you decide that you don’t like that colour ? You then have to choose another colour, lock the transparent pixels of the layer, then fill with the new colour. You can also create a new blank layer, choose a colour to paint with, change the blend mode of the brush from the top menu bar and paint away – but still, if you decide you don’t like the colour then you will have to go through the process for the first method. What if you could just move a slider to create a different colour ? Now wouldn’t that be a whole lot simpler ? Here is our start image, just click through for the larger image. The first adjustment layer we are going to use is a hue/sat and we are going to desaturate the image. What you’ll notice in the below image is that I forgot to take a screenshot of the desaturated image and had to go back and take one after I had made several adjustments. Its as simple as turning off the adjustment layers. Next you are going to use a hue/sat adjustment layer again, but this time you are going to check the colorize button when the dialogue box comes up. Then go and adjust the sliders till you get a colour that you like. This is probably the most time consuming part of this adjustment until you become familiar with where the colours lie, and using the saturation and lightness adjustments. I chose a blue colour that was similar to the original image, you can choose whatever colour you like. Obviously that isn’t quite what we want to happen here :-) Adjustment layers come with a mask – that’s the little white box on the right hand side of the adjustment box – click on the mask to make it active and then press Ctrl + i on your keyboard to invert the mask to black (hide all) white is reveal all. You could also go to Image>Adjustments>Invert – just make sure that the mask is active. Grab your paintbrush and start painting back in the pants. You should now have something similar to the image below. I haven’t painted back in all of the pants, I’m just showing you how to achieve the adjustments. Just say that you had taken this image in B&W originally, and I pop over to your place and notice what you’re doing and say ….. the pants on that scarecrow weren’t blue :-) The easy way to choose another colour is to double click on the adjustment box itself – not the layer mask – and the dialogue box will open and you can adjust the colour to something new. What I would normally do when re-colouring an image is duplicate the blue layer, turn off the visibility of the original blue layer and then make the adjustment to the copy. This way you will still have the choice of reverting to the blue copy if you decide you want that one instead. In fact, you could make as many different coloured trousers/pants adjustment layers as you wanted. When doing something like this it is wise to get into the habit of naming the adjustment layers. You can do this by double clicking on the text next to the mask and renaming this what you want. You can see in the image below that I have carried on with a few more adjustment layers and named them. I’ve also done 3 different shades of red for the jacket, shoes and pocket on the pants. I would then do a different red for the scarf. I’ve also done the hair and the flowers, both of these more need more refining to make them look realisitic but I would do the refinements on adjustment layers. I’ve highlighted the file size at the bottom of the image. You may also notice as you progress with your design, composite, colourising etc., that the adjustment layers can start to get out of hand. This is where Grouping layers together can come in very handy. Select which adjustment layer you would like grouped together i.e. in this particular image you might group together the clothing as I have done – although I accidently added the hair and shoes to the group and couldn’t be bothered going back and grabbing another screenshot – so just ignore those 2 layers :-) Click on an adjustment layer then hold down your Ctrl key to select the next one etc., If your layers are one above the other you can click on the top one, then shift click on the bottom one to select them. Next go to the little downward triangle near the top right hand side of your layers palette, and from the menu select the option ‘New Group From Layers’ Each of the layers you chose will now be in a folder which you can name, I used Clothing in the example below. All you have to do now is open that folder using the little arrow to the left of the folder to have access to the adjustment layers, but more importantly you can still edit each of those adjustment layers. And that’s it really. Remember to save often while you are working on a file, as I said at the beginning of this.
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The picture was taken using a Powershot G9 on manual setting. The lighting was done using 8 low energy Daylight bulbs in photographic reflectors shot against a black backdrop. Image was adjusted in painter 9 to give the extra contrast. She was a little self conscious and distracted at the beginning of the shoot. I don’t think the small crowd she brought with her helped really. It included her ex-lesbian girlfriend, her 6 year old daughter, and some guy. This shot was taken while she just relaxed and adjusted her skirt. In the end I got a good few shots that worked really well. This is one of the best. Please visit my website for painted artwork and information on how to become one of my models wwww.arts-fine.co.uk Art Gallery Online
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For a Quick Look click / Gorgeous Gods & Goddess’s, / Flowers, / Beautiful Places and Things, / Weddings
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ThIs girl is FACING into the sun. Jesus loves the little children. / All the children of the world. / Red or yellow, black or white, / They are precious in His sight, / Jesus loves the little children of the world… Canon Digital Rebel Xsi, 12.2 mp / Cloudscape with Corel edits of various kinds.
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Visited old haunts yesterday. I used to spend a lot of time up here when I was a kid, playing “King of the Castle. In spring there is the village “sing” where everyone comes out and sings hymns and such. It’s quite a thing! Now the tower is all fenced off and a hazard. I took this through the fence.
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PhotoShop Tip: Adjustment Layers
by Scott RuhsAn adjustment layer is a layer that only contains an adjustment such as levels or hue/saturation. They are more versatile than simply ap…
An adjustment layer is a layer that only contains an adjustment such as levels or hue/saturation. They are more versatile than simply applying an adjustment to a layer in your image. For one thing they do no damage to pixels where applying an adjustment directly to a layer will permanently alter the image. Another is that the adjustment layer provides a layer mask so you can apply the adjustment to specific parts of the image by painting on the layer mask. Adjustment layers give you the ability to change the blend mode and opacity, and if you double click on the adjustment layer icon if will bring up the dialog box so you can make changes to the settings. I hope you found this information helpful. Feel free to add to this or ask questions. I will do my best to answer them.
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Through lifes daily struggles we are faced with many obstacles to overcome.We can figure out how to over come them on just give up and crawl in a shell.The stream flows on over the top or around its hindrances.It finds the way around any obstacle in its path.We need to be the stream an not give up,but overcome the many trials that we face….......image © Gary L. Suddath
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Surprisingly she was totally calm and went about her quiet preparations with little fuss… bless her! Would have gotten the shoes in, but I was backed up to the wall with my 100mm… it was either the shoes or the head!
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The page boy get his last minute adjustments before leaving
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Adjust Multiple Images
by Alison JohnstonThis process is relevant to any adjustment layer that you use in Photoshop if you want the same effect on a couple of other images. Yo…
This process is relevant to any adjustment layer that you use in Photoshop if you want the same effect on a couple of other images. You’ve taken some images and found that they are all similar and will need similar adjustments to them. I’ve started with the images that you see below, and I’ve used a levels adjustment on the first image and from there all we are going to do is drag the adjustment layer to the other two images. Have the other images open that you want to use the adjustment layer on, and simply grab the adjustment layer and drag it to the next image. You should be able to see what I have done in the next image. Continue doing this until all the images have the adjustment layer. You might have to go back in and tweak the adjustment a little bit if you feel that it requires it, simply double click on the adjustment not the mask and tweak away to your heart’s content. This can save time if you have a few images to adjust and it doesn’t matter if the images are various sizes, the drag and drop method will still make the correct adjustment.
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this was a beautiful clematis that i played with and adjusted
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I had an earlier wake up call this morning, and had to drop hubby off at a site at about 7.30 a.m. It was very cold and foggy! I took the camera with me, of course, and on the way back, I stopped and took this – at about 8.15 a.m. – in Hastings. I wanted a little more definition to it, but, considering the time, I think I was lucky to get it . . . until I was on the way back from picking him up, at 10.00 a.m. There was STILL reasonably decent fog at that hour, just not at this spot or any other I could stop and take pics of! I like the way the dark branches at the right seem to be reaching towards the sunlight coming through the gap on the left. I have fiddled with all sorts of adjustments on this, tweaking this and that – nothing has made much difference, so, this has only had its levels fiddled with, along with an enlargement. I hope you enjoy it and thank you for coming to look.
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Stuffed toy teddy bear wearing headphones.
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Empress Falls – Valley Of The Waters was shot in the Blue Mountains National Park, NSW, in RAW, using a tripod-mounted Canon EOS 10D with Sigma 10-20mm EX DC HSM zoom lens with Warm Filter, at 17mm, ISO 100, 4 secs at f16. Empress Falls are the first major, accessible, falls in the Valley of the Waters. Despite the physical proximity with dwellings and the paraphenalia of a country town above it, these falls easily dominate their surroundings with an immense roar surging up the valley walls and filling the spot where this shot was taken, and their sheer size. The effect of being many many miles remote is especialy enhanced very early in the morning, when this shot was taken, before the hordes arrive down the semi-difficult cliff-side path and steel-mesh step staircases. Best viewed large ____ ___
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digital painting
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SAD - Seasonal Adjustment Disorder
by SNAPPYDAVEthis is so true in winter, i’m blue in spring i’m waiting for summer ‘now few’
SAD
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macro shot of tulips, added plastic wrap and adjusted colour tones
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The lovely Charlotte van Breemen from the Netherlands riding the beautiful Aristos La Escondida, 7 year old Warmblood stallion….........Spruce Meadows – June 2008 THANK YOU FOR VIEWING
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Shooting with a Canon EOS 400D v.2
by Stephen MitchellRead my previous post regarding image manipulation and camera-choice...
Read my previous post regarding image manipulation and camera-choice . Thanks to a few commentors on the article for their honest opinions, I have completely changed my mind on the value of post-manipulation on photographs. A few words and sentences have been amended, adjusted and completely replaced. I’ve used the DASH to strike-through a few words rather than deleting them. Thus showing why it’s an text-attribute worth keeping.
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