It covers Lightroom too - as you edit with the exact same controls.
Shoot in RAW
Edit in Photoshop in Raw - even if you're just shooting jpg.
Workflow gets real easy!
Photoshop also has a 30 day trial download as well. Lightroom was designed for photographers - photoshop was designed for graphic artists - you decide which fits your style better.
I have both - and prefer PS.
This is editing a jpg in Adobe Camera Raw.
Lowered the temperature
tinted it to the red a little
dropped the exposure almost 2 steps (should have been done in the camera)
hit the recovery until i saw a slight change in the sky
raised the brightness to give the lightning more pop
didn't touch the contrast
took the clarity up to about 65 to start sharpening it
bumped up the vibrance to give it a little more color
Desaturated it - just cause i could
then wen to the sharpening pallet and did basic sharpening
opened the file in Photoshop and did an unsharp mask with these settings
saved the file and uploaded it.
easy as pie and took all of 3 or 4 minutes.
I ought to make all that an action or something - but then - what would i do with my time?
Edited by jbear2000 on Jul 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM GMT
They are still there - just more defined. Whenever you compose an image - or edit it for that matter - you have to decide what your subject is - and let the rest go. If you have two subjects - the viewer gets confused and doesn't understand what he is looking at - or supposed to look at. Its all about the visual experience. To me, that shot is a lightning shot - so that is what I highlighted. There wasn't enough car streaks to make it interesting on its own.
Jon - that b&w canon is a real getter! It is so strong simply because the trees give it the sense of canon smoke in the background. That gets lost in the color version - but both are excellent. Actually all four are nice.
(its just that my dog looks at your dog, like I look at lunch) - but the canons are the best in all categories!
Edited by jbear2000 on Jul 22, 2008 at 02:02 PM GMT
either - or never both / and - "its either the bus, or us - but not both of us"
i'm a 1 and 0 kind of guy. Logic is my lifeblood - artists live in the world of plausible deniability ("that's not a mistake - i menat to do that!") and relativism - which has been soundly a disproven state of mind. And - it is so soundly disproven, there is no longer any intellectual reason to continue to hold on to it. But people still do. Out of ignorance and wishful thinking (or the lack thereof).
Whether car streaks or lens flare - you have to decide what the subject is going to be and let the other go.
Lens flare is either distracting or made to compliment the subject in some way.
Light trails are either the subject or they are not - and they aren't strong enough to stand on their own as a second subject.
So in editing out one - we got rid of virtually both and the image is siginificantly improved as a result.
Of course thats only my opinion - and since i only share MY opinions - i guess thats what yer gonna get from me.
I am going to be moving over the next few days, so I will probably not have internet access until next week. We are heading to the north Georgia mountains! Yippee!
If you want to call and check in, that would probably get me out of lifting some of the heavy stuff
We are actually moving...I guess I haven't really mentioned it yet We'll be just south of Chattanooga. You know, we had to wait for Mark to move to Nashville for it to be safe to live up there I'll still be close enough to participate in the outings-maybe even closer!
We made a few trips with a trailer, but we rented a big truck for this weekend to get what is left. I am not sure when the internet will be hooked up in the new house-that is my project for today. Do any of you guys have any experience with Comcast?
