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Old 03-07-2008, 21:04   #11
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I really wish I'd shot this in RAW I'm sure something could be done with it :/








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Old 03-07-2008, 21:05   #12
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Wow Pete you've brought detail out of that that I never would have seen

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Old 03-07-2008, 21:12   #13
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Old 03-07-2008, 21:30   #14
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There's still things you can do in PS with that.



I've uploaded the PSD's of those two with the layers in so you can see what does what. I also applied some highlight dodging at 14% to the ground.

http://vanilladays.com/t/mb.psd
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Old 03-07-2008, 21:40   #15
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I wish mine were even 10% as good as some of those. Most of mine are suffering from grey world issues, mostly because most of the time it was grey, and besides I've noticed before my S3 IS has trouble with blues (common problem with smaller sensors); Been really disappointed with all of mine so far and have had to abandon a plan to do custom postcards. I'm praying they'll come out a bit when I use the bigger, much better, monitor at home, but your latter pics suggest I'm not going to win that one either.
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Old 03-07-2008, 22:10   #16
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There's still things you can do in PS with that.



I've uploaded the PSD's of those two with the layers in so you can see what does what. I also applied some highlight dodging at 14% to the ground.

http://vanilladays.com/t/mb.psd
http://vanilladays.com/t/mb2.psd
We both love that Pete I'm going to apply the same changes to the full res version and get it printed on a perspex slate

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Old 04-07-2008, 09:08   #17
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If you shoot RAW you can rescue it by reducing the exposure or using the recovery slider in adobe camera raw. Also, desaturating to create a black and white is about the worst way of doing it. Black and white is as much an art as colour. Its a combination of altering various colour channels to create a look.
I know that, and I know that you know that I know that. I just couldn't figure out how to do that in the GIMP, so it was only an EXTREMELY quick blast.

Had I had photoshop to hand, the results would have been in much the same direction as yours.
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Old 04-07-2008, 09:17   #18
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I'm stuck with GIMP at the moment as well Martin, its no where near as polished as P'hop is it but I needed something which would let me do the resize. Its such a shame that photoshop is so expensive for the average amateur.

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I know that, and I know that you know that I know that. I just couldn't figure out how to do that in the GIMP, so it was only an EXTREMELY quick blast.

Had I had photoshop to hand, the results would have been in much the same direction as yours.
I know you know, but I didn't know if anyone else did. I know that a lot of knew people to black and white conversion use desaturate because it looks b&w. I wrote it for Matblack. http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Color2BW/#channelmixer Basically what I was saying.
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