Here's a nice image provided by Tony Buzak. I'll be posting my own version of this image in the next several days. I expect it will include some curve corrections as well as sharpening. See what you can do in the meantime.
Mike
An image from Tony Buzak
Here's my take on Tony's image. I used Lab mode, but RGB would work well too, and I hope some of you will follow up with your own version of this image.
The image is very good to begin with, though there is a warm red-magenta color cast, and the colors are probably a little too saturated for a people picture. Neither of these are going to cause problems in the family album, but let's see what can be done to provide a different intrepretation.
The first order of business was to reduce the red color cast that of the left girl's white shirt (which could be pink), the brushed steel insets on the locker doors (which are almost certainly neutral), and the floor (which is probably not pink). I set a neutral on the metal door latch on the leftmost locker. This is close to a middle gray tone, and although the floor and right hand door latch are still a bit pink, it's a good compromise. To persue this further, I would use an RGB correction to knock the last of the pink from these areas.
Setting a neutral helped with the second problem, which was that the skin tones were a bit too red and too saturated. In the original the left girl's face looks a bit flushed, and as if she were wearing lipstick. Knocking down the saturation by making the a and b curves less steep took care of this problem, and brought the hue clock for the skin tones to the normal length for a skin tone.
I made some minor adjustments to the Lightness curve to add detail to hair, face, and clothing.
Although it's hard to see with the 200K limit on attached images, I added a sharpen layer, and erased any skin textures that I thought did not benefit.
The image is very good to begin with, though there is a warm red-magenta color cast, and the colors are probably a little too saturated for a people picture. Neither of these are going to cause problems in the family album, but let's see what can be done to provide a different intrepretation.
The first order of business was to reduce the red color cast that of the left girl's white shirt (which could be pink), the brushed steel insets on the locker doors (which are almost certainly neutral), and the floor (which is probably not pink). I set a neutral on the metal door latch on the leftmost locker. This is close to a middle gray tone, and although the floor and right hand door latch are still a bit pink, it's a good compromise. To persue this further, I would use an RGB correction to knock the last of the pink from these areas.
Setting a neutral helped with the second problem, which was that the skin tones were a bit too red and too saturated. In the original the left girl's face looks a bit flushed, and as if she were wearing lipstick. Knocking down the saturation by making the a and b curves less steep took care of this problem, and brought the hue clock for the skin tones to the normal length for a skin tone.
I made some minor adjustments to the Lightness curve to add detail to hair, face, and clothing.
Although it's hard to see with the 200K limit on attached images, I added a sharpen layer, and erased any skin textures that I thought did not benefit.
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