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11/15/2003 11:01:05 PM · #1 |
One of my problems in the making of a good pictures is the editing. I know how to adjust the contrast the saturation and everything but i don't seems to know what looks good. Here's 3 versions of the same picture. Wich one is the best, is there anyone good at all and why? Any comment and answer are helpfull. Thanks
this is the original
this the one with auto all adjustment
and this one with some manual contrast and saturation i made
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11/16/2003 12:47:14 AM · #2 |
I prefer the auto adjust one of those three.
Another auto adjust option in Photoshop CS is the Shadows/Highlights. That does quite a nice job on this photo, again different from the previous versions. I have deliberately not done anything other than the one adjustment and deliberately took default values.
I'm not sure if I prefer the highlight/shadow version the best or not. I does seem to lack a little depth compared to the auto one you did earlier.
Message edited by author 2003-11-16 00:49:00.
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11/16/2003 02:03:04 AM · #3 |
I like the auto all adjustment pic best.
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11/16/2003 08:33:08 AM · #4 |
| Auto looks better here to me also. You say you don't seem to know what looks good, but it is what looks best to YOU that counts. It's your picture, make it look the way you want it to look. I usually apply the automatic adjustment just to see how it will look, and then do the changes manually. Sometimes they are very close. If I apply the auto adjustment and it shows very little change from my original, I feel I have taken a good photo in the sense of having set the camera's knobs just right. But the final image should look the why the photographer intends it, not as some software thinks it should be. |
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11/16/2003 09:04:25 AM · #5 |
| I think you have entered that fuzzy grey area of "monitor adjustments". To my monitor, your manually adjusted photo is waaay dark and the auto adjust is just right. Have you tried calibrating your monitor? If you enter the darker image in a challenge you have to realize that it will look even darker on some voters monitors. Dark images suffer score wise. However, if dark is what you like and dark is what you intended, what the scene looked like, the mood yu want to convey, fine. |
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11/16/2003 09:11:12 AM · #6 |
emorgan, your comments just made me realize that my picture didn't look the same in photoshop than with image previewer in windows. i don't know why is that but every pictures i look at i n photoshop are brighter.
someone know why? |
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11/16/2003 09:27:02 AM · #7 |
Interestingly, I prefer the manual version. Rephrasing coolhar's comment, which is "best" depends on what message you are trying to say with your photo. The auto version is a bit more colorful and makes the dead/dormant branches show more. It shows off the wonderful colors and textures of autumn. The manual version is darker and more muted, preserving the low key of the original. It's message is more somber, a reminder of the death that accompanies autumn. (For a similar reason, many "spring" pictures are high key to convey the rebirth of that season.)
The same is true of other postprocessing choices. For example, a little sharpening would bring out some of the textures and enhance the message of auto version but detract from the feeling of the manual version. |
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11/16/2003 10:11:28 AM · #8 |
| If you haven't "calibrated" your monitor, your photos may look different to you than they do to others. Take a look at any image in the voting phase of a challenge and adjust your monitor so that you can see as many as possible of the different shades in the graduated bar at the bottom of the page. I don't know what to say about images being brighter in your photo editing software but remember that for the challenges most voters will be viewing them with Internet Explorer. I look at my final versions in IE as a last check before submitting them. Hope this helps. |
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11/16/2003 10:13:34 AM · #9 |
it's because you need, in photoshop, to set your proof setup to match your monitor profile.
go view/proof setup/monitor rgb
Originally posted by nicklevy:
emorgan, your comments just made me realize that my picture didn't look the same in photoshop than with image previewer in windows. i don't know why is that but every pictures i look at i n photoshop are brighter.
someone know why? |
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11/16/2003 06:53:31 PM · #10 |
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11/16/2003 06:58:48 PM · #11 |
Like Coolhar says, I always make sure I look at my final entry for a challenge in IE.
Just as importantly I make sure I upload it to DPC and then look, as the background, grey, can also affect how a photo looks. I like that they use grey here, rather than white or black as on many sites, as I feel it is overall the best choice to suit the widest range of photos.
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