Curvemeister Forum

Here is my contribution.
I have experimented long.
to long. When i had this to do on each photo so long that terrible.
Still i am looking to a way that i can quickly manage photo's with Cm3.
So, my BIG problem are always such pictures.
In adobe elements 6.0 there is a  nice option named : Enhance- adjust lighting-SHADOW /HIGHLIGTS
Before I was under force to use it, I always use pure CM3 to reach my goal.
This is always the case with each photo.
I must acknowledge that I seldom reach a better way with CM3 on that specific point.
Also this time. There is my bottleneck in timeconsumption.
So I used that Shadow / highlights to dim the highlight and lighten the shadows.
It is a mask that is used by elements.
I can 't seldom reach the same effect with CM3
So done this  I set threshold black in Lab mode and a neutral point.
also manipulating the blue curve for the blue cast.
Also a contrast pin on the tiger.
so, I go now looking to the pictures of my other forum members

frits

So here is my RGB tiger.
i did this in about 3 or 5 minutes.
About the same sequence.
there is less yellow in the hightlight.
But in reallity the sunlight is not white and it is acceptable for me when i see a little yellow in it.

Frits

There's nothing wrong with using Shadow/Highlight for your actual work - it's a very powerful command.  Then use Curves to fine tune and do the other things that curves do so well.

For the purposes of the class, it is possible, with this image, to get a good result.  The main thing I wanted to demonstrate with this image was that the histogram is not always a good indicator of what is important.  In this case, the bright spot is less important than getting good contrast in the tiger.