Re: Dark Day in Duck Land (Lesson 1)

[mikemeister_admin]

Mike,

I followed the lesson precisely and did the duck with the RGB mode.
Iit is different because the  saturation mode is grayed out.
also I do not use the floiting neutral mode. ( That is for a later moment)
Frits

[mikemeister_admin]

the first photo is the  Caroussel with the wizard.
the second, stepped out and  the rest I did it with LAB.

Frits

[mikemeister_admin]

2007-07-29_152422--iQuadKiteFlyers.jpg

I did it with the wizard, but used the RGB mode.
I could make the sky more blue, but for this moment, I do not know it.

Frits

[mikemeister_admin]

Manda

you know , you can attach pictures with a maximum of 200K. so saving your picture in a bigger format would be pleasure me

The neutral was confusing - I went for under the bike as I know the seat has grey on it (just like mine)>then I moved the neutral point around & watched the curves dialogue, when it hit the the centre of the line in the curves grid I set it on the arm (which was a surprise to me).

white could also be a neutral. You could see, that the shorts have a blue cast. So you can and may place the neutral on the shorts.

In this case it is not special necessarily, to use a whitepoint.

Frits

[mikemeister_admin]

first part.

frits

[ggroess]

Fritz,
I split this topic off from Manda's so I can keep it all straight...

I'll have more for you later today...Nice to see you here...Greetings!

Hope to not confuse you...
Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

GREG,
indeed, it is better that each person has its own thread for his work.

Frits

[mikemeister_admin]

Greg,
when I  experiment wit the photo with the metalic balls, then there is a small strange thing.
You place a white point on a ball.
then you can move the whitepoint on the ball to see the effect of it.
You see there are a lot of white around it.
But when I not place a whitepoint, and do it on the other way with the shifting of the curve to the left, then I have learned in earlier lessons that you reach the right point when you see the first white spikes.
so it looks to me better the last way.
I can't manage the whitepoint on a way that I get the same result with shifting the curve.

Frits
I have tried to catch all in a picture, but it will not succeeded. So you mus trie it yourself.

[mikemeister_admin]

This example , i had before,
I could look at the old results, also what mike has made of it.
I have not done also.
But I remember, that mike has a more satisfied result.
I have spent not much time on this.
Switching to RGB gives a better result.
But I nearly always work in Lab mode.

Frits

[ggroess]

Mike,

I followed the lesson precisely and did the duck with the RGB mode.
Iit is different because the  saturation mode is grayed out.
also I do not use the floiting neutral mode. ( That is for a later moment)
Frits

For the duck your image looks good.  You seem to have picked up a bit of a green cast but nothing to worry about at this point.  We really are just getting the shadow/highlight /neutral drill going here...

Greg