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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:25 am
by -default
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

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:20 am
by -default
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.

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:59 pm
by mikemeister_admin
Here is my attempt
Lab
Shadow - black shoe
Highlight- white blouse
neutral - locker handle
slider 1.05
L slight S curve
Noise reduction
USM sharpening

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:08 pm
by -default
Very nice!  I particularly like the effect of the noise reduction on the faces, and the green background.

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:30 pm
by ianbowie
Just for fun,

Used LAB.
Selected shadow on black shoe
Highlight on white dress
Neutral on floor.
Set skin tone on girl's face

Decided to remove busy background.
Extracted girlsto new layer ( needs improvement!)

Sharpened image


Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:18 pm
by -default
That is kind of a cool effect.  Maybe add a sort of drop shadow so they aren't floating in space.

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:12 am
by ianbowie
Mike,

Your right as always!

Added drop shadow.

Thanks

ian



Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:32 pm
by ianbowie
Tidied up the extraction of the two girls.

Ian

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:36 am
by -default
The extraction is much better - they still look kind of like they are floating in the air though - a tough problem to deal with. - Mike

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:23 pm
by ianbowie
Mike,

I decided that drop shadow was not the answer in this case and I decided to create a shadow that would imply some distance from the girls to a wall.

I think it is better .