Curvemeister Forum

Dan has a few critics due mainly to his "old fashioned" views on color correction which are firmly rooted in his vast professional pre-press printing experience, but there is no one who knows color correction in Photoshop as well as Dan.  I own every book he has written, and recommend them highly.  ...

I guess it really depends on the image.  I shoot a lot of landscape stuff, some old barns, old cars, stuff like that.  Often, there really isn't a "good" highlight to be found unless you compress the histogram down to force one toward the top of the range.  Reflections don't work and can b...

<blockquote><br /><br /><blockquote>I'd like to point out that you are not color correcting with highlight and shadow.  Rather to me they are "special" pins that set the level. Setting a highlight should not shift the color of your image.  It should set the upper limit of the pixel value for th...

I agree with Mike here (I think we really said the same thing), however, I don't often use a pin for highlight or shadow, preferring to find a neutral if at all possible and let the highlight and shadows fall where they may.  I like to use the full screen curve window to judge where my high/low...

Personally, I have found two main uses for pins.  First, there are certain "known" colors that you can rely on in an image, but very very few unfortunately.  One is neutral gray, which is available by default in most digital editing programs.  The problem is finding a true neutral gray.  Cement is "...

There seem to be a lot of videos -- especially podcasts -- being done for Photoshop applications and techniques.  I know you're extremely busy, but have you considered making a series of short video podcasts available on the various CM topics and techniques?  These would help some users underst...

Hi Mike,<br /><br />I continue to be amazed at CM3.  Love it!<br /><br />It has been quite a while since I did any pin file editing (skin tones and skies are about all I need) but I did want to play around a bit with pins in CM3 in working through the Help files.  Surprisingly, I found the Modify Pi...

Also, no mention that the mouse wheel also controls zoom in/out of the image.  Nice touch, and much handier than the multiple click zoom tool.

Another minor glitch, perhaps unique to my system, is that Ctrl-R and Ctrl-F1 pop up my Nvidia menu, not toggle the Ribbon bar.  Not a complaint, just an FYI.

Love the new CM3, Mike! :)<br /><br />In slogging through the new CM3 help menu, in Curves->Image Right-Click->Quick Pin description, you state "This sub-menu sets the image magnification ......"<br /><br />No big deal, but it needs a correction to describe the 5 Pin-to options having nothing to do ...