Saturation and colour levels

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Photo Information
Copyright: David White (dkaved) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 266 W: 18 N: 433] (2106)
Genre: Landscapes
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-04-15
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Edited by: Emma Taylor (Aramok) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 885 W: 101 N: 1425] (4931)
Edited Image Upload Date: 2006-05-01 13:30:27
Categories: Flowers, Trees
Camera: Nikon D70S, Nikkor 18-70mm f3.5-4.5G (kit lens)
Exposure: 14.0, 1/200 seconds
Workshop Note
David

I have a quick play with the picture to pull a little more from the image for you. I'll try to explain how I did it... but I'm still learning the editting side of things...

I selected the green area of the picture and set the feathering to 20 pixels, then applied a saturation layer to the pictuure. the feathersing helps with the divide between saturated and unsatuarated, aiming to give a smooth unnoticable transition.

I then selected the opposite area and again with a feather of 20 pixels, appplied another layer correction, but this time a colour balance, increasing the blue...

Finally after flattening all layers I applied a sharpening filter (USM).

Took about 3 maybe 4 minutes (once you know what to do that is....)

The effect is similar to a polarizing filter, but not identical. the white of the clouds woudl be whiter with a polarizing filter.

Hope you like it.

Emma
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