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05/17/2009 11:07:38 AM · #1 |
hey everyone.. i've been doing photography for awhile now, I went to school for it but didn't finish the program ... I wanted to learn more on my own. The biggest problem i'm having is that my pictures are lacking that "PUNCH" of color and sharpness.. its hard to explain but i'm sure if you looked at my stuff on here you'd see what i mean. I look at everyones pictures on here and they look like you're actually looking at the scene thats being photographed, and my pics don't have that. I know this is pretty vague and possibly hard to understand.. i'm just hoping that someone will be able to give me some tips. Some of the editing i do in photoshop includes:
- Levels
- curves
- Unsharp Mask
- Gaussian blur depending on the pic
- High Pass filter sometimes
- Shadow/Highlight (tone mapping) but i don't really know how to do it that to well yet.
if anyone can help me that would be amazing.
thank you.
Kev. |
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05/17/2009 03:30:59 PM · #2 |
I can't remember his name but someone put together a USM Action that Manny Librodo used to use. You can search for it as the "Librodo Technique".
Background copy
USM 18-40-0
USM 150-.3-0
Edit>Fade USM 100% in Darken Mode
USM 150-.3-0
Edit>Fade USM 50% in Lighten Mode
Flatten image
Do it and save it as an action. It will give you color punch and sharpness.
Message edited by author 2009-05-17 17:37:07. |
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05/17/2009 03:35:56 PM · #3 |
A related technique to enhance contrast is high-radius USM -- apply a low value but high radius. A typical setting to start with might be (Photoshop terminology):
Amt: 15%
Radius: 50
Threshold: 0 |
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05/17/2009 04:26:18 PM · #4 |
thanks pawdrix and GeneralE.. i'll try those out and see what i can come up with.
I'll post my progress. |
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05/17/2009 04:38:25 PM · #5 |
| Ive always had better luck keeping any and all sharpening until the very last step. it is the step that either give you that pop, or gives you the ghosting that ruins an image. Any steps you take after sharpening will risk messing up that delicate balance. |
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05/17/2009 05:33:59 PM · #6 |
| "Luco Sharpening" is the technique Manny uses. |
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05/17/2009 05:43:17 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by jeger:
"Luco Sharpening" is the technique Manny uses. |
Google "The Librodo Technique" and this is what will show up.
He PMed me a link to his friends sharpening action back in 2005. I'm sure he's refined things quite a bit since then but this was one of the backbones to his look for a good while. |
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