Adobe Photoshop and CS

[mouselovenfamily]

Thanks! That's a nice touch up! It was my only shot of her. The light were strange in there for me and my shots are strange. It was my first trip with the D90 and I was still learning as you can tell! Some shots were great abd others so~so. I guess thats the way it goes. Of course it the shot you want that are off!!

Here's another attempt of a re~do for me

Original~~

New~

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[ukcatfan]

I did use the unsharpen mask. So this is the best I'll get??? It's a tough program. Thanks all!!

Renee

It is a difficult program to use. For this particular example, I do not think you are going to get what you are expecting. Your EXIF is hidden, but I suspect that your shutter speed was pretty slow and that is what caused the blur. Sharpening does help, but it is no miracle worker. You really should give the program I mentioned a try. I have played with it before and it worked well. I did not purchase it b/c I would not get enough use to make it worth the cost.

 

[MM_Bound]

Michael Andrew hasa photoshop crash course available for pre order, if you order now you get access to a restricted site that has the DVD available for online viewing so you can watch before you get the DVD.
michaelthementor.com/store and look for the photoshop crash course
I have pre ordered it and the DVD is fantastic, quick moving and will really help you get comfortable with CS3. I highly recommend it. He also has a free online photo school to help you improve.

 

[Chikabowa]

I can't help you with this particular photograph (sorry).
But one thing that helps me with my photo editing (and this is from a know-how and from a time-saving aspect) are the use of actions. Do a search for Photoshop CS3 actions on google.
There are a lot of free actions out there that you can download (and place in your actions palette) and then lots that you can buy as well. Some range from free or just a few bucks to packages of actions that cost upwards to $200+.

But essentially, they are a set of steps that are pre-recorded to create a certain effect on an image. Lots of them allow you to go in and adjust the layers so that you can put your own style/stamp on the photo it's self. By playing around with those, you start to learn how the actions work and how the entire photo editing process works.

Every pro I know uses purchased actions and/or a series of actions they make themselves to shorten their workflow.

 

[dburg30]

Your 2nd one is a much better sharpening job IMO

 

[Pooh_Girl]

Hello Everyone!!! RBennett and I had pictures done a little while ago, and the photographer (Randy Chapman who is awesome!!!!) did a really cool technique with the coloring, but for the life of me we can't figure out how he did it. Here is an example of what I am talking about. We have Photoshop Elements 5.0, and we have tried playing around with the saturation, but we can't get it to turn out right. What do you guys suggest??

 

[annnewjerz]

A larger picture

 

[ukcatfan]

From what I can tell from the shot, you are talking about the sky and water being over saturated. If so, it would start with a CP filter to help the sky. Then if shot in RAW, you could really up the saturation to just parts of the image (i.e. hi, mid, low not L, R, up, down).

 

[Pooh_Girl]

It would make it easier if they were in RAW, but unfortunately everything was shot in JPEG. What is a CP filter??

 

[ukcatfan]

It is a circular polarizer filter. With JPG, you will be limited to how much you can saturate before it will start to look rough.

 

[Pooh_Girl]

According to my DH, (he finally decided to chime in) from what he observed that day Randy shot only in JPEG and he didn't ever notice him putting a filter on or anything. So he and I are not really sure WHAT he did. Back to square one I guess.

 

[MICKEY88]

According to my DH, (he finally decided to chime in) from what he observed that day Randy shot only in JPEG and he didn't ever notice him putting a filter on or anything. So he and I are not really sure WHAT he did. Back to square one I guess.

I'm curious,,,how does your husband know that randy shot only in jpeg..plus knowing he was shooting outside, he very well may have pulled the camera out of his bag with the cp already on his lens..

 

[Pooh_Girl]

I'm curious,,,how does your husband know that randy shot only in jpeg..plus knowing he was shooting outside, he very well may have pulled the camera out of his bag with the cp already on his lens..

DH here..... the reason I know that Randy shot only in JPEG is because I asked him and he told me. One of the greatest things about that day was not just getting great pictures, but also getting to talk with a great photographer and pick his brain. I asked him point blank, "Do you shoot in RAW or JPEG? What are you shooting today?" And the only reason I that I doubted he kept the CP on there the entire time was because we did quite a bit of shooting outside, then inside, then back outside, etc. But that was just my observation.

 

[ukcatfan]

I'm curious,,,how does your husband know that randy shot only in jpeg..plus knowing he was shooting outside, he very well may have pulled the camera out of his bag with the cp already on his lens..

I completely agree here. You would have almost no way to tell if he was using RAW. This is not to say it is impossible with JPG, but RAW gives you more to work with when messing around like that. Also, you probably would not notice him messing with the filter as you were concentrating on being in the shots and it was likely already on the lens.

 

[MICKEY88]

DH here..... the reason I know that Randy shot only in JPEG is because I asked him and he told me. One of the greatest things about that day was not just getting great pictures, but also getting to talk with a great photographer and pick his brain. I asked him point blank, "Do you shoot in RAW or JPEG? What are you shooting today?" And the only reason I that I doubted he kept the CP on there the entire time was because we did quite a bit of shooting outside, then inside, then back outside, etc. But that was just my observation.

didn't mean to upset you, but minus the info that you talked to him, I really was curious how one would know what the photographer was shootin

very interesting, even for controlled lighting in studio I would have thought he'd shoot raw..

 

[MICKEY88]

as posted earlier a larger picture would make it a lot easier to try to figure out..what was done

 

[Chikabowa]

Since it was full sunlight on you, he used the sunlight to expose you guys... essentially using it as a large softbox. He metered for your skin/white shirts to make sure he didn't blow those (well... from the small picture the white looks totally blown, but I'm going to assume that it wasn't for the sake of argument). Since the sun was behind him and to camera left, it allowed the elements of both the sky and water to retain color.

Then in photoshop, it looks like he did a pretty saturated color pop on both the sky and water, bringing out the colors in those elements.

(Side note... what I just said is exactly how I would have taken that particular shot! So I'm not positive that is what he did... but based on my experience, that is what I would guess. )

At least this is my best guess when looking at the tiny pic!!

A lot of pros shoot strictly JPEG, a lot shoot RAW. A lot shoot Manual, Aperture Priority or Shutter Priority; just depends on what they are most comfortable doing. What someone does usually is based not only on the skill of the photographer, but also their post-production work flow.

 

[RBennett]

didn't mean to upset you, but minus the info that you talked to him, I really was curious how one would know what the photographer was shootin

very interesting, even for controlled lighting in studio I would have thought he'd shoot raw..

You didn't upset me, but that was one of the things that I was REALLY curious about. I didn't know if he shot in RAW like you said, so he could have more range to work with, but he said that he doesn't like spending the time going into each picture and having to save it as JPEG, etc so he just shoots a LOT in JPEG. I think for us in just 2 - 2.5 hours he shot over 500 pictures!! When I get home tonight and have access to our laptop I'll post a larger shot of that picture. DW resized it down to tiny and honestly, on our computer, it still showed the picture so large we had to scroll down.

 

[MICKEY88]

You didn't upset me, but that was one of the things that I was REALLY curious about. I didn't know if he shot in RAW like you said, so he could have more range to work with, but he said that he doesn't like spending the time going into each picture and having to save it as JPEG, etc so he just shoots a LOT in JPEG. I think for us in just 2 - 2.5 hours he shot over 500 pictures!! When I get home tonight and have access to our laptop I'll post a larger shot of that picture. DW resized it down to tiny and honestly, on our computer, it still showed the picture so large we had to scroll down.

to each his own I guess, I used to shoot jpeg only also, then I shot a sweet16 party, I always get to my location early so I can do a few test shots to get my exposure and wb.. the lighting was horrible, so I decided to go with raw/jpeg that night, jpegs were very hard to correct wb, so I opened a raw file and it was a simple correction using my oem software, that was enough to convert me to a raw shooter.

the cool thing is, the raw file also has the info on camera settings, so I usually do a batch conversion using the Sony software, then if there are any I really don't like I'll open the raw and work on that one,then save it replacing the other jpeg..

I've gotten to the point that I can tell if a group need the same adjustment, so I do one then save the action, then batch process the group using that action..

 

[zackiedawg]

There's also a good chance that he used some plugin filters or effects. There are lots available, some of which I use to play with. Nik Effects has lots of color, CP, and other types of filters that can be applied in post processing, and can be done with jpegs without the damaging effects typical when you try to boost saturation yourself - since it is essentially applying color modifications in a separate layer.

A few others are add-on programs for Photoshop that can produce various film-style techniques and photographic looks, such as high key B&W, dark filters, IR-style effects, and more.

From the tiny little thumbnail you posted, I'd say it looks alot like one of the filter options in Nik's Effects add-on.