Fix Your Photos A 30.8-18.10.2006

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This is a Krisses's assignment's site for Photoshop course provide by Janee Aronoff

All my images does include Adobe RGB (1998) profile ICC-profile. The best way to look them is to use Safari.

Week 2

In this week we are going to,

Use Histogram
Evaluate a photo's tonal range
Edit non-destructively
Correct tonality with Levels
Correct tonality with Curves
Change tonality for part of a photo

Correcting tonal with Levels

This photo has taken on a sunny daylight, but I set camera's AV -2 to avoid that hard sunlight blowing out my image and to get some drama in it.

I first reset the white point and then find white and black spots using threshold adjustment layer. First dragging the slider to left until I saw the whitest area and marking it with eyedropper tool holding down shift and optio/alt keys. Then dragging the slider to right until there was left the blackest area and did mark that on the same way. Then canceling threshold and did open levels adjustment layer again. Took the white pipet and click marked white point n:o1 and with black pipet n:o2. Did add hue/saturation adjustment layer and did add +30 to saturation and a bit more to yellows. Then finished the photo giving some sharpening using high pass filter ( opacity 67%, fill 70%) and fixed the rule of thirds. I just leave my marks so you see my white and black points. You get rid of those marks by clicking them with eyedropper tool and holding shift and optio/alt.

In the histogram images we can first see before histogram and then after image. Click them to see values.

Before After

Correcting tonal with Curves

I notice one thing when doing this assignment. Keeping histogram palette with paths and layers wasn't a good idea. I need to drag it separately so that I could see same time curves adjustment layer, histogram and my image. So I start opening all these windows to my workspace and dragging black point in curves palette until it hit to first black colors. I leave whites as they were and two points in the middle, doing very slight s-curve.

Before curves_before curves_after After

Changing tonality using Shadow and Highlight

In this photo I have made quite a many corrections to get it good. Too many I think. Anyway the main thing was correcting just a part of the photo using shadow and highlight. You find my settings under this photo. I just didn't like what shadow and highlight filter did to the background. That's why I masked it away.

shadows_corrected shadows_orig layers shadow/highlight settings

Click the images to get them bigger.

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