Postby Daniel Zuck » Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:43 pm
Art
I was able to see the entire video. Anyway, it was a bit complicated. Did you see how the dial hands would disappear when the greens were zeroed out. I had no idea that the size of the dial was determined by the strength of the signal. I posted a rather long message to Greg about the video. After watching it a few times I started to see what it was about, I think. I still wonder about why certain colors are where they are on the clock. I went to Miami once, and there were a lot of hot "Latin" colors around, magenta, yellow, cyan. So in my way of thinking, the top of the hue clock is "hot" and the bottom of the hue clock is "cooler," blue, red and green.
Anyway, I've been having a lot of posting problems. I first picked up the wrong duck from the zip file. It was too small. Then I figured out i needed the large file because the smaller duck image really looked bad no matter what i did to it. So I operated on the large file again.
I had two layers, the first in rgb and the second in lab. I didn't like the colors in lab for the first try, so i did rgb. I placed hue clocks for the 3 'styles' highlights, shadows, mid tones. I used the threshold method on the vertical rgb. I set a neutral point and went "neutral shopping" within the grey band on the duck's leg. I applied the CM changes. the pix was too dark so I used the screen. Then I went into lab and did the same thing again with the lightness curve, only i added some contrast points so that i could twist the lightness curve to improve the contrast. I went into the a channel to improve the reds.
Dan
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