English Paul Yellow Flower

[mikemeister_admin]

Here are my dandelions, in Lab, complete with settings

[ggroess]

Paul,
The flowers are also pretty dark. Let's see what we can do to make it better.

Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

Like with the Duck, huh?

I'm going to revisit both and push the brightness more than I usually would. Perhaps there's an old seeing habit I need to break here? Either that, or my monitor needs an overhaul (although the row of graduated boxes at the bottom of your home page is perfectly clear, left to right).

[ggroess]

I would say that you need to push the brightness a bit.  There is a lot of room in the image...the trick here is that there is no neutral so getting the color to pop out is a bit more interesting.  You need to adjust he shadow and highlight without blowing out the petals of the flowers.

Give the brightness another run and see what you can do...If you cannot get it in the wizard, go ahead and shut it off...

Greg

[j2e4a8n]

Here are mine even though I am not sure it is the procedure to do so.

I desaturated the bottom of the background with the second image [step].

[ggroess]

Here are mine even though I am not sure it is the procedure to do so.

I desaturated the bottom of the background with the second image [step].

Jean you are doing just fine...The de-saturation of the back ground is not necessary but interesting...you did just fine with the flowers...good work..

Greg