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dovey no need to thank me. I just do what I do. My background is many, many years in painting and approach the light if nothing else as if painting.
I do start in SPP, and always raw. I agree the WB in SPP is irritating to achieve and often I give up, but do attempt it through playing with different combinations of choosing white balance setting, colour settings, colour mode and the fringe correction. I almost always give an image negative x3fill light. I never use contrast, other than negative contrast. Contrast with simple contrast slider in SPP, Adobe or whatever , crushes colour. I'd rather in Cs6 use a B&W grad layer, set too luminosity, and bring the percentage down, until it looks presentable. Rarely are any adjustments done globally, they are almost always done locally on the areas that require something.
From SPP I export as a 16bit Tiff Adobe RGB same size. I mainly use Cs6, but lightroom is good. I dont sharpen anything or use noise reduction. I quite like a wee bit of noise, sometimes shooting at high iso hoping for some good noise. I alo have all noise banding and chroma noise set to zero in SPP.
That is what I do, not a lot, most images are done very quickly and I do get bored with computers quite quickly, so probably rush them through before they are as I'd wish.
WOODED PATH by Julian .., on Flickr
SAWING HORSE by Julian .., on Flickr
OIL HEATER by Julian .., on Flickr
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