Colour enhancement – Lightroom contrast and detail
Colour enhancement – Lightroom contrast curves, sharpen and noise reduction This is the second part of a 7 part tutorial to demonstrate how to enhance colour in a digital photograph. Stage two: Using LR3 Finer adjustments in LR3 to control contrast, sharpness and noise The final stage you see is to use one of the preset lens profiles. I then exported the file as a 16 bit TIFF Please do...
Read MoreColour enhancement – Lightroom Grad and adjustment
Colour enhancement – Lightroom Graduated filter and adjustment brush This is the first part of a 7 part tutorial to demonstrate how to enhance colour in a digital photograph. The picture I selected is of a piece of Dawn Ice because it has a lot of colour but very little detail. It is a fairly plain shot and wouldn’t be very much without some colour enhancement. The end result is not so much to showcase my work as to show the potential of Lightroom and Photoshop… you might love it or hate it, but you should at least appreciate the power available to enhance the colour in a...
Read MoreVideo tutorial – post-processing a magic cloth image
This tutorial video takes you though the post-processing of a Magic cloth image from Lightroom 3 to Photoshop CS3 Video Text: Kirkjufellsfoss, Snæfellsness, Iceland Step one: choose presets to match the lens… Canon 24mm f/1.4 mark II Step Two: Use white balance eye dropper to select a neutral colour – grey is best, but white will also work with a bit of tweaking Next step: even out the exposure; darken the highlights, brighten the shadows… a little Next step: Adjust the tone curve, basically boosting the highlights with strong contrast and using the histogram Looking at...
Read MoreAdvanced Photoshop – Dramatic Mono Conversion
This tutorial looks at ways to convert your image to black and white using the tools available in Photoshop CS3. There may be work-arounds for other versions of photoshop or other image editors, but the work horse in this tutorial is the powerful ‘Black and White Tool’ in CS3 which has a great selection of filter pre-sets. To emulate this without the tool, you could try blending channel levels. The first step is to prepare your image. Black and white has a higher dynamic range than colour so it may be advisable to create a HDR from multiple exposures or even tonemap a single...
Read MorePhotoshop basics – simple colour correction
This is a quick and simple technique for correcting the colour of an image in photoshop. It is not always successful and will not give you the desired results 100% of the time. But as it is quick and easy it is definitely one to try first. My picture of Goðafoss has a dictinct blue cast. It was taken in low light and this is a common problem as my canon couldn’t really see well enough to decide on an appropriate white balance. I could have corrected this at the RAW stage, but for the benefit of this tutorial, I burned it as it came out of the camera. Duplicate the layer. Then apply an...
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