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RAW Workshop I (46) *
gerhardt

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Gerts version

ellis49

(30807) [2005-11-09 10:30:35] [8]

Hi Gerhard.
Open it in Adobe-bridge.
Pressed CTRL+U to turn out the auto selection from adobe.
Use the crop tool in custom. Use the pipette for WB, point at the whites part, 5150K.
Set exposure to + 0.6, Set sharpen to 0, leave the rest of the parameters.
Colour space; adobe RGB, 16 bit/channel, resolution 240.

In PS CS2.
First sharpen with Nik sharpener PRO2, pre-sharpen raw 40%.
Use Threshold under the Layer-menu (You got a new layer) to find out the whitest and blackest point. Mark them with the tool; colour sample tool. Delete the threshold layer.
Open curves in the layer-palette, use the white and black pipette and click in the markings.
Remove the markings by clicking clear.
Now the picture should be correct exposure and right colour.
Ctrl+shift+e the make one layer.
Use the shadows/highlight tool the get the wings a little more light for details.
15 % amount shadow and 5 % amount midtune contrast for some more punch.
Resize the picture to 794/480/ 72. Select canvas; add 6 pixels with black to get
a frame outside the picture. Now it’s 800/486.
Convert to lab-colour, use USM 0,3 % pixels, 300% amount in the lightness channel.
Convert back to abobe RGB. Set 8 bit/ channel convert to sRGB for the WEB and save it as JPG.
It’s not so colourful as yours but I think it has some more details in the wings.
And I did not clone out the black thing infront of the beak because I almost never clone away things in my own pictures.

Regards
Gert

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RAW Workshop I (46) *
gerhardt

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Original unedited version

gerhardt

(11585) [2005-11-09 05:23:37]

This is the original unedited version. Converted from RAW with no adjustments and resized in PS CS2 with no other adjustments.

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Title: Great to be home too...Canon EOS 20D

Great to be home too... (52) *
gerhardt

(11585)

Just levels

duckpond

(323) [2005-10-12 15:50:40] [1]

Adjusted the levels per colour range, to remove the red sheen.

Hope you like it.

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Phuma (58) *
gerhardt

(11585)

Add on...

gerhardt

(11585) [2005-08-16 16:14:48]

Just to show the the whole lion.

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The Exterminator (66) *
gerhardt

(11585)

Cropped and Reduced Orange Colour Cast

coasties

(27718) [2005-07-27 03:37:17] [8]

Hi Gerhard

This is a lovely shot of Mr Big Ears, but I personally find the orange coloured foreground and the all over orange cast distracting.

IMO by removing the foreground, and lessening the orange cast the shot has better visual impact.

This is what I did:

In Photoshop CS

Reconfigured the frame and cloned out the still visible areas of orange foreground, then flattened the new layer and cropped.

I then selected the area inside the white part of the frame.

From the menu bar:

Image> Adjustments> Auto Levels

Then

Image> Adjustments> Hue/Saturation> Saturation +10

Then

Image> Adjustments> Selective Colour> Colours: Black> Black slider +4 just to give some depth to the black on the face especially the eyes and end of nose.

Sharpened saved and uploaded.

Hope you like.

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Title: Techtalk on Macro (Part2)Canon EOS 300D

Techtalk on Macro (Part2) (72) *
gerhardt

(11585)

PS Elements 3.0

PDP

(11769) [2005-07-17 16:49:29] [6] [+]

Gerhard, here's what I did;

Brightness -22
Contrast +29
Darken Highlights +58
Finally, crop as after all that the FG was burnt.

I hope you like it.

Paul

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Cornered (58) *
gerhardt

(11585)

Add on...

gerhardt

(11585) [2005-06-16 17:46:52]

This is the little beast that charged me the first time. His two bothers or sisters followed suite and I had to keep up with them.

I would do it all again tommorrow... :)

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