Hi
Learning the tricks of post processing and photoshop can be every bit as difficult as capturing what you had in mind with the camera.
A couple of PP / Photoshop pointers:
* know roughly what you want to get out of the image - what effect do you want to portray to the viewer - snapshot / landscape / fine art etc.
* crop freely. remove any thing that doesn't add to the image
* what subject are you trying to show - highlight that area, draw attention there.
* be wary of "overdoing it". A overdone processing job will draw the attention to the processing, rather than the image itself.
* have a general hunch about the photo you're about to process - are you on a rescue mission? Sometimes no amount of processing can save an image from the bin.
* revisit any image you're unsure about - you may think of a different approach later.
Anyway, I've had a very quick play around with the image in the link.
the changes were:
- colour balance correction (White Balance / tone cast)
- some dodging
- some burning
- channel and specific area saturation (some desat + sat)
- general sharpening, and some area sharpening
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:07 pm
