Adobe Photoshop CS2

Female Red-winged Parrot
Photo Information
Copyright: Richard Cridland (rcrick) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 586 W: 40 N: 1063] (3442)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-05-01
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Edited by: Loot Eksteen (loot) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5695 W: 603 N: 3357] (8939)
Edited Image Upload Date: 2008-05-16 22:46:21
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon 5D, Canon EF100-400 F4.5-5.6L IS USM, SanDisk Extr. IV 2Gb, Hoya 77mm Pro1 DMC UV LPF
Exposure: 8, 1/200 seconds
Workshop Note
Hi Richard

As I said, this workshop was done on the underexposed version of the original photo you posted as a workshop.

Unfortunately you use Photo-Studio so I'm not sure if you will be able to do this within your software. Anyway, I thought I'd just show you how PhotoShop presents a solution to this backlight problem. Actually all the "Shadow/Highlight" settings (which were the main processing to accomplish this result) were done at default setting except for the "Midtone contrast".

Post Processing done:
1. Adjusted the "Shadow/Highlight" settings at the following values:-
-- Shadows:
-- Amount = 50%
-- Tonal width = 50%
-- Radius = 30px
-- Highlights:
-- Amount = 0%
-- Tonal width = 50%
-- Radius = 30px
-- Adjustments:
-- Colour correction = +20
-- Midtone contrast = -46
2. Adjusted "Contrast" to +3
3. Increased "Saturation" +3
4. Adjusted "Gamma" settings in "Exposure" to 1.03.
5. Chose "Save for Web".
6. Adjusted the "Quality" upwards from the original downloaded size of 136kB to 288kB.

I hope you approve of the optimisation that I've done.

Best regards
Loot
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