Keeping Texture in White

[nldunne]

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
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Norm D

[nldunne]

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