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01/19/2005 08:00:35 PM · #1 |
This is my first attempt at selective desaturation and I'd be interested in your opinions:
Message edited by author 2005-01-19 20:11:17.
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01/19/2005 08:27:27 PM · #2 |
To be honest I never have been fond of the overly obvious selective desats. I do selective desaturation on many of my non-wildlife images, but I work and practice at the subtle. This is an example of what I mean by subtle.
Of course everyone has different tastes.
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01/19/2005 08:29:56 PM · #3 |
I like it. Blue/cyan seems to work very well as the remaining color in a desat. Check out my portfolio for some of my examples.
Message edited by author 2005-01-19 20:31:31.
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01/19/2005 08:31:04 PM · #4 |
PS: I like the composition.
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01/19/2005 08:33:16 PM · #5 |
I kinda like it, I like the texture of the ground, and the composition. The subject is just outside the front limit of focus though, so it's a bit soft. When i look at the image, I want it to be centered in the DoF.
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01/19/2005 10:25:56 PM · #6 |
The color is a little too strong for the image and should be more subtle. The image indicated by nsbca7 is a good application of the technique.
I'm not a big fan of selective desat myself and believe it has limited application. It is definitely overused on this site, but then this is a learning site so that is to be expected.
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01/19/2005 10:49:02 PM · #7 |
Paul, try this as an example of what I was talking about. Take the same image the way it is now. In PS go to Image/Ajustments/Color Balance. Ajust Cyan/Red +55 and Yellow/Blue -24. Then go to Image/Ajustments/Hue/Saturation. Go to the Edit: box and scroll down to the Cyans channel and ajust the saturation level to -75. Then ajust the Blues channel to -80
See if that didn't help. Play around with it.
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01/19/2005 11:26:01 PM · #8 |
Thanks for the interesting comments and tips guys.
Here is the same image using nsbca7's technique, I quite like the subtlety. I can see how having the very obvious desat as in my original may appear clichéd.
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01/19/2005 11:55:20 PM · #9 |
Very interesting. I think I like the b&w background in the first shot, but the blue is just a bit overpowering. Maybe if you could keep the backgound from the first and just drop the cyan just a bit or use the lighten/darken slider to bring it down a little.....
The textures in this shot are awesome!!!
ps - What's the blue stuff, by the way? :-)
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01/20/2005 12:41:57 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by jenesis:
ps - What's the blue stuff, by the way? :-) |
It is a jellyfish that had washed up on the beach
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