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01/08/2005 09:39:04 AM · #1 |
At richterrell's recommendation, I got a copy of Scott Kelby's "the photoshop cs book for digital photographers". I don't think I need another book--this thing is unbelievable...
Over the past 9 months I have come to realize that there is an absolute necessity to master photoshop--not in order to practice digital artwork, but simply just to be able to present the images that were actually captured. One of Canon's core missions is to produce cameras and lenses that capture more than what the eye can see, and the more I look at what I've captured, the more I believe that they are doing it. But, also, the more I work with photoshop, the more I realize that it is my job to bring out the images.
I know I still have a ways to go, but I can't tell you how jazzed I am now to be learning things that will let me go back and actually pull decent images out of what I previously would have discarded. I am just thankful that more workflow included saving nearly everything I've shot.
Here is one image I would have otherwise thrown away for being too washed out. It could still use some work, but for less than 5 minutes work, I have something that is basically presentable.
 
Quite simply, I duplicated the base layer and set it to multiply. Next I added a layer for adjusting brightness/contrast, and then I added a layer for hue/saturization.
edit: added before
Message edited by author 2005-01-08 09:55:17. |
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01/08/2005 09:50:00 AM · #2 |
| How about tossing in the before image. |
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01/08/2005 09:56:29 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
How about tossing in the before image. |
done! now that d&l have more than doubled our portfolio space, i guess that's not an issue anymore ;-) |
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01/08/2005 10:03:35 AM · #4 |
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01/08/2005 10:10:12 AM · #5 |
Great picture with amazing results in PScs. I just bought the book yesterday and I hope I enjoy the same success. It's an easy reader and I recommend it to all.
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01/08/2005 10:45:55 AM · #6 |
Amazing ain't it, skip? And the longer you work at it the more you'll find in your images.
I find it amusing that the image on which you're "practicing" he5re is so conceptually like the one I chose to practice with on this thread: //www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=158718
Good work!
Robt.
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01/08/2005 10:57:55 AM · #7 |
Glad you are enjoying the book, Skip!
I page through it all the time. I like the format of this book as well as the "Down and Dirty with Photoshop" series that walk you through a process from soup to nuts. I frequently learn something I did not understand about a tool right in the middle of a process. Pretty neat!
I think the next books I want to take a look at are Real World Camera RAW with Adobe Photoshop CS and Real World Adobe Photoshop CS (both by Bruce Fraser) based on the positive reviews and feedback I keep hearing about these two titles.
Edit - Bad spelling and working links
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01/08/2005 11:01:16 AM · #8 |
Got that book for my after Christmas Present. Skip you're absolutely right. We have to master PS just like we used to have to master the Darkroom. And so far this book is just the thing.
I also got Eismann's 'Masking and Compositing' and McClelland's 'One on One' I think I have enough reading material for the next three months.
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01/08/2005 11:24:15 AM · #9 |
Skip - I left you a comment. Wonderful work.
This is so weird... For years I have been avoiding all kinds of technical reading. I never read instructions, nor did I read guids or helps of any kind. I used to believe in the old "try & learn" method. But now, those books simply make the difference between "nice" and "Amazing!". In Israel those are sooo expensive... but eventually they worth it!
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01/08/2005 11:35:23 AM · #10 |
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01/08/2005 11:45:53 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by skiprow:
Quite simply, I duplicated the base layer and set it to multiply. Next I added a layer for adjusting brightness/contrast, and then I added a layer for hue/saturization.
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Wow, very nice! I downloaded your before image and did the "duplicate layer, set to multiply" thing...that seems to be the key.
I'm still very new at this...what does that actually do (multiply)?
I think I have a bunch of images that could be rescued if only I knew how to treat them (I only have PSElements but still...).
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01/08/2005 12:23:56 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
I'm still very new at this...what does that actually do (multiply)?
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This may be more information than you want...
From a PS class I took:
"Blend modes enable you to visually combine layers in ways that are impossible in tradtional media."
"Multiply mode darkens the image. If one of the pixels in the blend is white, Multiply has no effect (you see the opposite color). If you multiply with black, the result pixel is always black. Multiplying a color that is neither black nor white darkens the result pixel. However, unlike Darken mode, Multiply does not just choose the darker pixel in each of the blended channels. Instead, it multiplies the values of the two contributing pixels in each channel and divides the result by 255 (thus giving you a maximum result of 255-which keeps the numbers "in range"). You can also see why black and white behave as they do. The value of black is 0. Any number mutliplied by 0 is 0; therefore, any color in Multiply mode with black will look black. White has a value of 255. Any number that is first multiplied by 255 and then divided by 255 will end up as the original number. White is the neutral fill color for this layer." |
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01/08/2005 12:40:06 PM · #13 |
Makes sense...adjusting the black point of the histogram will do the same thing for the image below, won't it?
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01/08/2005 12:42:08 PM · #14 |
Oh, and I guess 'Multiply' evens out the histogram a bit if it's heavy on the white side...
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01/08/2005 12:52:54 PM · #15 |
| As I understand it, you can use several "multiply" layers to bring back way over-exposed shots. Also, you can vary the opacity of the multiplier layer so as to control the impact. Fun! |
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01/08/2005 03:15:35 PM · #16 |
first, thank you all for your comments, as well as all the additional discussion--that is Great!
here is another example of using the technique of multiplying a layer
 
this one took a bit more work. i cropped it, and also did a fair amount work cloning out that distracting-annoying branch.
really, when you look at the first one, doesn't that just beg to be thrown away? it is just so god-awful flat. it just goes to show, there are probably a lot of really, really good images out there that just need a little bit of tuning to make them pop...
Message edited by author 2005-01-08 15:18:07. |
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01/08/2005 04:25:46 PM · #17 |
This book helped me out a lot.
Book
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