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06/18/2005 10:35:28 PM · #1 |
I already wrote a PM to scalvert on the site council but thought I would ask here also in case he does not see his e-mail.
This may seem like a simple question but ....
Is using a Sepia filter allowed under the basic rules?
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06/18/2005 10:43:12 PM · #2 |
i dunno but all you gotta do in ps is go to variations and click once on yellow and once on red
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06/18/2005 11:00:46 PM · #3 |
Yup - I know I cand do duotone and tritone a number of ways but many of the software programs have a single conversion tool like they do for b/w and using the one for b/w is legal so .....
just thought I would see. Thanks for the info on ps though.
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06/18/2005 11:02:21 PM · #4 |
yes it is as long as you apply in uniformly thruout the entire pic.
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06/18/2005 11:03:30 PM · #5 |
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06/27/2005 09:16:57 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Rooster:
yes it is as long as you apply in uniformly thruout the entire pic. |
It that referring to the Photo Filter way, or the Variations way? Or are they both legal so long as they are applied to the entire pic?
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06/27/2005 09:29:04 PM · #7 |
In general, any action of which each component sub-action is legal, is a legal action.
It is, however, possible to have illegal actions which produce a result that could, by other means, have been acquired legally, and these actions are prohibited. For example, there's a feature for balancing light & dark that's been essentially automated in PS CS, and part of the automation uses a layer in a mode other than normal, so an entrant that used this feature was DQ'd very recently. Had he been aware this illegal mode were involved, he could have worked around it and gotten essentially the same result legally.
Filters and actions, of course, are two different things. However, any filter in PS is basically an automated, self-contained action that involves performing numerous steps and applying them to an image in various ways. It's very difficult to tell whether the steps used in the filter are "legal" steps, since filters are not "transparent" and open to scrutiny like actions are.
For this reason, IMO, it would be unwise to use ANY filters in basic editing except those specifically described and permitted in the basic editing rules. Do it by hand and you can't go wrong.
Robt.
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06/27/2005 09:32:07 PM · #8 |
Hi bear_music! Would you mind being slightly more specific about the feature for balancing dark & light that caused a DQ? Was it shadow/highlight? Or creating multiple layers? Would both those be OK in advanced editing?
Many thanks from a newbie! |
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06/27/2005 09:39:06 PM · #9 |
jbsmithana, to answer your question more simply:
"Yes, you can!"
The rules say adjustment layers (or equivalents) are legal.
So, assuming you're using Photoshop, just add a hue/saturation adjustment layer to the image, set it to "colorize", then play with the hue and saturation until you get the hue you like. Any other method that produces the same result (ex: the "Sepia" button in Picasa2) should likewise be legal.
Message edited by author 2005-06-28 11:38:34. |
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