Canyon Conumdrum

[mikemeister_admin]

Yes I'm still using the demo version, as I can not really justify buying CM twice.  I wander the marked clock to see colours in an image, but I guess it is not so good as the free standing one.

[ggroess]

even in the demo the hue clock is in the program the stand alone hue clock is not part of the demo....

Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

This is my version of the Canyon!

I did it nearly whole in Lab mode, but used also the shadow and Highlights in P.S.E. 4.0

Frits

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Here's my take on Greg's very interesting canyon image.

This took several passes, Lab first to set the thresholds, then RGB to neutralize some of the various color casts, another Lab to bump saturation, and a final RGB to tune down the green cast in the nearby stone formations, particularly the one on the far left.

[mikemeister_admin]

a final RGB to tune down the green cast in the nearby stone formations, particularly the one on the far left.

Mike,
it looks very nice.
specially the red brown color of the canyon in the background.
I could not get this in LAB-mode. Mine is to mangenta.
But  I have thought, it was the intention to to do the picture all in LAB mode.

On mine screen looks the particularly stone the one on the far left still green.

Frits

[ggroess]

WOW I must say this one has generated a lot of interesting interpretation....
I'm really glad I posted this image..I was afraid no one would take a stab at it...

It certainly can be improved in LAB but Lab is not the only answer to a canyon shot is it??

Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

but Lab is not the only answer to a canyon shot is it??

Greg

Indeed not!

So I will try it again and using all!

Frits

[mikemeister_admin]

I bleached the orginal 3 or 4 times. and did a high, neutral, black.
so it looks already better.

[mikemeister_admin]

After that I have compared the foreground red-browncolor with that in the background, by setting marks on it.
In Lab-mode these values are close togehter, so I jumped to RGB mode.

I locked the whole pin-grid on each R G and B and around the upper mark point, the point of the red-brown rock in the background, I losen some gridpoint.
then working that the rock goes more red-color. the same color as the fore-ground.
I  did not succeeded 100 %. that tells me the hue-clock.

I see now the sky is too green.

I am going on!