Open week of the class starts Sunday!

[ggroess]

During this first week of the class I will be posting images for everyone in the forum to play around with and make corrections.

I would like everyone to do the following during this week.

1) Download at least one image after I post it. 
2) Make a correction in CM and other Photoshop tools; our goal is image improvement and color correctness.  Image improvement includes modest cropping sharpening and general clean up, color and contrast improvements.
3) re-post back to the forum.

These tasks will help me in a few key ways...

1) I will know you can get the images
2) I will know you can re-size and post back to the forum
3) I will get a feel for your current level of image processing.

To the forum members who participate:

THANK YOU!  It is with your help and generosity that I can get the class motivated and willing to share back their images.
Please write a brief description of what you did and if possible include screen shots or saved curves so they can try your curves out for themselves.

I look forward to the next 6-7 weeks and I hope you are all as well.

Greg

[Daniel Zuck]

levels, magic wand to select black rock, auto correction, adjust hue (blue), blur tool to even out corrections on rock, curve a, curve b, lightness, unsharp mask, more blur to black rock

[ggroess]

Hi Daniel,
When you re-size make sure that you make the longest dimension 1024 or so...not both...No need to distort..We just want the image to fit the screen nicely for laptop users etc.

Can you re-post with the correct proportions?
Greg

[Daniel Zuck]

okay.  Sorry about that.

[ggroess]

Not a problem...this is why we do the open week to get everyone up to speed and iron out the small stuff...
Greg

[Daniel Zuck]

i tried to repost a photo with the correct proportions, plus some corrections.  Not sure if you got it

[Daniel Zuck]

i selected the mountains, inverted the loading of it so i had the sky separated.  I then made a new layer of the sky, did it again so there were two layers. I boosted the contrast, I increased lighting on the shadows, highlights and midtones.


hope this version has the correct proportions

[Daniel Zuck]

Could you please clarify in your pdf what you meant when you wrote: "onto the highlights, I adjusted the highlight end of the red channel since it was the lowest value and set it to 254?  Does that mean the output side of the hightlight hue clock is 254?  You are changing only the output percentages or numbers on the highlight hue clock, right?  So, if the highlight hue clock reads 7 on input, you want the red channel output to read 7 also?  Same with the Green and blue channels.  Then when its time to change the highlight output of the hue clock to 254, that is what you are doing?

[ggroess]

again sorry for the confusion...
On the highlight hue clock the red channel was 246 inbound and it was the lowest value in the sample.  I raised it to 254 to get it in line with the other two values.

The shadow point hue clock reads 17 on the inbound side and 7 outbound for the Red channel. 

In My original threshold sample the Red channel was 7 on the inbound; and that was the value I set all three channels to. 

I really have to be careful trying to work too fast and getting some of the entry values wrong in the screen shots... I know from the image, and my notes; that there is shadow detail in the image and 7 was the threshold.

Greg

[Daniel Zuck]

i noticed in your screen shot you had alot of pins at the bottom with folders reading "zone system," "65 zone system," "Nature," "objects" etc.etc.  I have the most latest version of curvemeister, but i don't see those folders.  How do I get them set up.  thanks

dan