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Postby ggroess » Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:43 am

Feel free to make this into anything you want....
Extra points for creativity.... 8)

Greg
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Postby imported_ganna » Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:08 pm

Just over 3 years ago (yes, I'm an ancient user of CM  8)) Mike had this page on  Black and White conversion through CM . Don't know if it's still there (screen shot 0001). I'm still using it and found that there's more control using the curves in RGB through CM than the sliders in PS. So, here's my B&W effort  http://www.curvemeister.com/forum/index.php/topic,1392.0.html
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Postby ggroess » Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:29 pm

I like it...very nice...

Greg

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Postby mikemeister_admin » Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:37 pm

Hi,

Starting in RGB, I placed a highlight on the snow on one of the branches. I then dragged the bottom of the RGB curve to increase the contrast. After saving it, I reopened the edited image in LAB to increase the saturation.

Richard
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Postby mikemeister_admin » Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:41 pm

Ganna,can you post it as a 300kb image?It loses  impact in a smaller size I think.GregM

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Postby imported_ganna » Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:59 pm

OK, will try in future :)

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Postby mikemeister_admin » Fri Dec 10, 2010 7:49 pm






I leaned hard on the contrast  in the brightness chanel in HSB to separate the ice flakes from the sky,then when I went to change the sky in saturation I got a B/W conversion which I was going to try anyways.Hard sharpening for the ice edges.
For the color version I started with the HSB con trast then changed to Lab for the color(file below)In a second pass in Lab I put a neutral on the ice to get a whiter white and better sky.GregM








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Postby mikemeister_admin » Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:03 pm

For me this is a typical B&W image. But I have no idea how to use CM for B&W. This conversion was done in Bibble with Andrea plugin. ok it is a bit special and blacks are blown but...
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ThomasD
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Postby dkrassen » Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:26 pm

Hello

I am posting two versions of the branches in the sky image.  I used levels and curves.  I  used both in RGB mode.  It is my understanding that you can perform the same corrections in CM that you do in levels but I am not sure how to use Curves or CM in this manner.  Even my Photoshop Curves adjustment uses auto as a starting point.  I am relatively new to curves and hope this class will answer most of my questions.

Please post any suggestions.

Thank you
David Krassen
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Postby dkrassen » Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:34 pm

Hello,

I decided to try to adjust the tree branches image using CM, however, I believe the sky would look better bluer.  How would I make the sky bluer in CM? 

Thank you
David Krassen
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