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Keeping Texture in White
As digital cams meters arae based on the tone of WHITE, I try as best I can to keep texture and detail in it - if I can.
A quick check I found to help out follows. 1. Open image SAVE AS to PNG efxtension (default for PICTURE IT) - 72 dpi at 12 X 8 inches Study image well - pick out brightest part in the image 2. Enlarge PNG Canvas to 950% or so to work on small areas of brightest part of image - keeping texture 3. Adjust Auto Contrast first (or Levels - whichever is best) SAVE Work to keep texture in brightest part of image with BRILGHTNESS/CONTRAST control - SAVE 4. Adjust color (if needed) - Try AUTO CORRECT first - if not good - click RESET - and do it manually on brightest part at 950% - keeping texture in this area. I do a tone match of a major part of a reproduction - like skin tone's brightest part - keeping texture in the skin - to my GRAY SCALE & VALUE FINDER using my BRIGHTNESS /CONTRAST CONTROLS to match the values in my G S & V F - SAVE Do a manual colour correction if a colour is reflected into something and giving a false colour at 950%. Click on colours in SATURATION MODE to bring out subject a bit. Work to keep texture in brightest part of image with BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST control - if needed - SAVE 5. Resize and (Crop if needed) to 72 dpi at 9.5 X 6.33 inches - SAVE 6. SHARPEN - at 950% - keep a strong eye open for noise (grain) - even if it means going to the MINUS side 7. add border - if desired 8. add signature - SAVE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norm D
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Further to my note on White Texture
Working at 900+%, I was also able to colour correct a large greenish cast (in the shade) on the wall just over the black vehicle on the left center edge. I used a gold reflector with the flash which gave it a slightly warm tone to the face. The only sad part was - the glare in the glasses. Working on a small area and every so often sliding the magnification slider to 100% to check the over all image progress helped greatly to see how the correction affected the whole image. This helps greatly in doing small colour casts on a person's skin. Norm D
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Norm Dunne I love the Old Masters for incentive and compositional ideas. Last edited by nldunne; 29-06-07 at 19:03. |
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