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Sorry, don't remember what I used as the neutral in this one, but it probably wasn't the sky



Sky set as neutral:

The purple areas were set as neutral:

Hey Greg, I'm going to use this thread to note anything I find confusing in the course, in case you want to clarify it for future generations :D There's only one thing so far, and it may simply be that I'm an idiot rather than that it needs changing: For the example images, you say: (right click abo...

The question for me on this one was how to increase the contrast on a grainy image without making it too dark.

And my earlier, tinier version:

Ah, ok -- sorry, I can see how that could get confusing :D Am at work now but will do this tonight, and if there's time will re-do the other small images. I thought they were small because they were examples, but when I showed Art what I'd done he said they weren't supposed to be like that, which pr...

Er, sorry, I downloaded very small versions of the original images, ahem -- so I did these two again:





Would do the others over too, but it's late and my eyes are going

ps: Good job on accurately representing the colour of the polluted NYC sky

c01s01-Example3 tb.jpg c01s01-Example4 tb.jpg The parts that came out purple here were what I set as the neutral: c01s01-Example5 tb.jpg c01s01-Example6 tb.jpg c01s01-Example71 tb.jpg I'm not convinced by either of these, necessarily, especially the first one -- but it seems like you have to sacrif...

Here's the RGB duck adjusted in LAB -- not sure if it's better?? I may have been too cautious about boosting the colour.