Photoshop

[low_delta]

My Photoshop skills continue to improve. I put a lot of work into this one. You probably can't tell what I did, but that's the point.





It was probably obvious that the sky was retouched. It was a bit of work to come up with the right color. The rest of it has a slight saturation boost, but it was done with colors, and not the saturation slider. And a slight contrast increase. And a slight crop. Yes, everything is slight.

Yes, that's me. Cyn found the location, I posed. This was in Indiana, taken on sunday morning, at the overlook at Brookville Lake.

Comments

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

First, I increased the contrast in the sky, but only the sky. Then, since that changed the color, I had to change the color.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Levels and curves? Hell yeah. Check where the light falls, with levels, then adjust it with curves. That's how I set the contrast on the sky. Then I used selective color to fix it.

Cyn made the icon. :-)

[lonita.livejournal.com]

Looks delish!

[banana.livejournal.com]

Nice job, particularly the sky!

Some parts look like you sharpened a bit too much: the bottom edge of the roof and your right shoulder are a bit jagged, and the trees look a little... sharpened!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Hmm. They're both jagged, though the top one is slightly more so. It might be due to the compression. I check it out some more when I get home.

Do you really think it's sharpened too much? I always fade the sharpening to 75% (or lower). I like it sharp, but not too sharp.

[banana.livejournal.com]

It's the trees I really noticed - trees at that distance *should* be a bit fuzzy.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Foliage should always be less-sharp than other objects. But it's such small part of the scene, that I went with the rest.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I just remembered that I sharpened the "original" version too. The reason is that after resizing it, it gets too blurry, and wouldn't be a fair comparison.

I see a white halo around the dark objects, and that seems to be from compression (I do "save for web").

As for the jagged edges, I suggest not sitting too close to your monitor. ;-)

[banana.livejournal.com]

Heh!

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

That's really cool.

It's funny how the variations in color actually make the lines more evident, and draw attention to that extreme angle and perspective on the roof. The composition gets better, even though the composition hardly changed. Awesome.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Like the more vivid color makes the whole thing more... lookable? Visually inviting? I think the comination of the color and the crop improves the bottom part a lot. It separates the railing from the concrete, and removes a bit of excess.