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Mick451 wrote:
Tend to find digital images a bit flat looking in general and like to boost them a bit.
Duplicate the image layer, set this layer to ‘soft light’ – I set this to 50% by default and adjust the layer opacity later.
Duplicate the ‘soft light’ layer and set to ‘screen’ – I set this to 50% by default and adjust the layer opacity later.
Duplicate the ‘screen’ layer and set to ‘soft light’ – I set this to 50% by default and adjust the layer opacity later.
Duplicate the second ‘soft light’ layer and set to ‘darken’ at 20%.The first ‘soft light’ layers add contrast and saturation.
The ‘screen’ layer lightens things, bringing out detail in the shadow…inverting this layer and desaturating makes for a nice mask if needed. The image might look a bit bright/faded, so reduce the opacity a tad.
The second ‘soft light’ layer adds contrast/saturation.
The ‘darken’ layer is used to stop highlights blowing out and add some detail back into high tones – you should get a contrasty image with detail in key areas.mash the layers together and check the levels histogram.
If it’s gappy and spikey just do an unsharp mask (20 | 250 | 1) and fade it to 50%.
This should give you a nicely smooth histogram.Do any extra sharpy bits after that.
I tend to do a ‘sharpen’ and fade it to 50%.
then sharpen again and fade it to 20% ‘screen’.
then sharpen again and fade it to 20% ‘softlight’, or 8% ‘linear burn’….it depends.Thanks Mick.
This may all seem second nature to you, but it’s the reason I can’t do PS — I can follow
the receipes, but I don’t understand anything that I am doing. So, I find it hard to get beyond
the simple corrections to the clever stuff.Mick451 wrote:
I’ll do up a screenshot step by step thingy over the next coupla days.
Thanks, look forward to it.
There is certainly an edge to a good photograph that has had that extra bit of skillfull processing. I think it’s what makes the difefrence between a good photograph and one that gets the wow factor (- or that provides a distinctive style, such as SteveD – thread in Digital Phgotography refers).
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