May 27, 2006, 20:19
Toad, thanks. I like the shapes of your photo, and the colours are great. The humour of the sign is a nice touch.
K, try the dodging & burning technique some time. [layers > new, mode > overlay, check the box that says "fill with overlay neutral 50% grey".] Paint with very low opacities, 10-20%, in white to lighten and black to darken. It makes a profound difference. I do this step for less than 5% of the photos that I post, but the good ones almost all have it done. Now, noise reduction is something I don't take the time for.
Russt, thanks, but I'm still very new to photoshop and I only know how to do a couple of tricks. There are always better ways.
Uli, I was originally thinking of keeping the paths, and have a variant where they're more prominent. In the end, though, I decided that the diagonals didn't help. If you're interested, here's a photo taken by the person who was standing next to me. Among other differences, she used a higher camera angle. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=...et-1119773 (She was shooting film, so it should probably be compared to my "before" image.)
K, try the dodging & burning technique some time. [layers > new, mode > overlay, check the box that says "fill with overlay neutral 50% grey".] Paint with very low opacities, 10-20%, in white to lighten and black to darken. It makes a profound difference. I do this step for less than 5% of the photos that I post, but the good ones almost all have it done. Now, noise reduction is something I don't take the time for.
Russt, thanks, but I'm still very new to photoshop and I only know how to do a couple of tricks. There are always better ways.
Uli, I was originally thinking of keeping the paths, and have a variant where they're more prominent. In the end, though, I decided that the diagonals didn't help. If you're interested, here's a photo taken by the person who was standing next to me. Among other differences, she used a higher camera angle. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=...et-1119773 (She was shooting film, so it should probably be compared to my "before" image.)
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