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N_Oo_B
Aug 27, 2007, 7:49 PM
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I'm not sure where to start with this..
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deepplaymedia
Aug 30, 2007, 7:23 AM
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ok i just had a quick look... 1st up, auto colour/contrast/levels. do not under any circumstances stray from automatic adjustments, because the colours on your screen may be off so it will look wrong to you...but the amazing algorithms written by adoobie nerds are always correct so i did that, then open up curves and give it a bit of a contrast & saturation boost. this meant that there is no distracting details in the clouds, so the viewers eyes are not averted frokm the real action below the person in the photo was not doing anything exciting so with a quick magnetic lasso & layer via cut we had ourselves a climber! 3 pixel red (#ff0000) pencil works best for adding the rope. because i am an ethically sounds photo-processor I refuse to use the clone brush (to get rid of the black hole left by our missing walker cum climber) so instead I just cropped that whole part of the photo out, which dealt with all that dead space nicely anyway. another sneaky way to fill dead space is with the sun, so i took the liberty of adding one in for you. this particular sun is one i created for a client some time ago and since i use it to fill space so often, it is now saved as a hotkey action. shift+F9 & viola you have a sun. i recommend you make your own set of space filling features such as suns, boulders, grass tufts, spotters, bags & pets. these can always be called upon to turn a tidy shot into something more action packed and engaging for the viewer. anyway, the next step was to add a very subtle lightened ring around the climber. while its subtleties will go unnoticed by the average viewer, the photo editors will definately publish it now because it convinces them that you used an off camera flash ('so it MUST be good!') finally i added what every real photographer must have- lots of big f*ck off copyright notices in a gigantically gay party font pasted all over your photo. the spelling mistake will be viewed by clients as 'well it must be an incredibly clever play on words because i am not as smart as him & i just dont get it so i will pretend and chuckle knowingly if anyone says anything'- yup, thats what happens in their heads by reducing the opacity slightly i was able to achieve a truly professional look. and here are the results;
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philbox
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Aug 31, 2007, 7:52 AM
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Gold trophy post Josh, excellent stuff mate. Oh yes, you forgot the majid copyright red and green arrows.
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stymingersfink
Sep 5, 2007, 4:48 AM
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philbox wrote: Gold trophy post Josh, excellent stuff mate. Oh yes, you forgot the majid copyright red and green arrows. I hate to disagree with you phil, but I'm gonna have to go Platinum on this one, even without the items you suggested. F&*king Awesome, dpm... i couldn't have said it better had I tried! ...so i won't
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kriso9tails
Sep 11, 2007, 11:33 PM
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Psht! Suns without sideways, red baseball caps are so last year. Get with the times. To the OP, two suggestions: i) Crop out some of the top and the bottom of the image. From the top I'd crop down to about where the rock ends (and maybe move the clouds down a touch) and I'd take out roughly an equal amount from the bottom. ii) Fix your colours and contrast. The fastest way (in Photoshop) is to open curves. In the curves window there should be three eyedropper icons -- black, grey and white. Select the black and then click the darkest part of the image to drop it to pure black. The select the whit eyedropper. I'd click soewhere in the clouds for this. As for the grey tool, it's not so necessary here, but if you think you have a true neutral here (the blacks and whites don't count becuase you just neutralized them) use it on that and it will balance your mid tones. Now, if the black or white eyedropper take things too far you can either fade the curves after (edit --> fade curves [command, shift, f on a mac]), or if you double click the respective eyedropper icons in the curves menu, you'll open a menu that with let you customize the rgb values that the tool will balance too (which will allow to to create colour cast if you want as well). Most frequently I set the blackpoint to R:5 B:5 G:5 and the white varies from R:G:B: 235 to R:G:B: 255 If you're not sure where to click for balancing your shadows and highlights, create a threshold adjustment layer. Move the slider as far left as it will go leaving some black and click okay. Mark that black spot with the colour sampler tool. Open the threshold layer and slide the slider to the far right leaving enough white space to click. Hit okay and then mark the white spot with the sampler tool. Then discard the threshold layer. If that makes no sense I could prbably make quick screenshots.
(This post was edited by kriso9tails on Sep 11, 2007, 11:38 PM)
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