Using filters in Post Processing

[prostie1200]

I thought I would try to brighten up the sky in one of my shots and roughly picked out the area in the photograph ad applied the photoshop Blue filter at the default setting.
I liked the result, the sky became much bluer and wondered if on the same picture what would happen if I gave the wall a default 81A warming filter.
Like the sky , I picked out the wall and applied the 81A at default and then went on an gave the same treatment to the bushes and grass a dose of Emerald Green filter.
These are the results - what do you think?

[Saphire]

You don't say which one has the editing.
My guess is the first one as the colours are richer without being overdone they look very natural. First one for me.

The second photo looks slightly washed out with little contrast.

[gordon g]

The first one looks to be the edited one, but the effect is quite natural. It looks like the effect a polariser may have had on camera. (I must admit, I'd find it easier to do just that rather than fiddle around afterwards!)

[prostie1200]

Hi Saphire

Thats right the first is the processed image.

I did use a polariser on that shoot but having lost a stop I had to dial in -1.0ev to get the speed up to 1/60 as the camera was Hand Held.

The second was put through PS Raw converter, but even using the Luminescence facility was unable to get the colours right. There was no burn out as such in the original Raw, just a lack of colour data in the file which the filters seem to reintroduced.


Cheers

Brian

[andy153]

Hi Brian, I took the liberty of re - doing your original. This is in CS3 with Viveza control points. Four control points - one to increase saturation of blue in sky, one to increase saturation of brickwork, and one to increase saturation of green in foliage - fourth one was placed on one of the roses on right and I increased the brightness slightly. You can do the same in Capture NX and other software using control points. What do you think?

[prostie1200]

Hi Andy

Like what you have achieved with the sky,wall and the rose reveal, especially the wall, a nice evening sun glow, would have liked the grass strip to be a more darker verdant green which would then highlight the wall even more.

The more you look the more you see.

Cheers

Brian