PureRumble
TPF Noob!
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- Aug 16, 2007
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I have to admit... I am completely new to this contrast/brightness/saturation/etc-postprocessing thing. I didn't like it. Maybe because I wanted to spend more time behind the camera than the computer, or maybe because I'm just to lazy.
But I decided to give it a shot! The array of tools that photoshop provides for improving your pictures is endless. I decided that it is way too early for med to get into that field. So I have constrained myself to what Lightroom provides. So the changes I've made have affected all of the image, not just some part of it constrained by masking. So I wan't to know if I'm on the right way.
Short list of the changes:
* Big bump of contrast.
* Changed the tonal curve to give the two big trees, and the forest in general, more depth.
* The contrast showed some colors of the forest to be more saturated. So I targeted specific colors of the forest and made them less saturated.
* Made the photo more sharp.
* Removed annoying an annoying part of a tree with clone.
Yes, that sums it up. I have intentionally left the forest a little bit dark. The key-part of this picture is afterall the sunset. I also believed the forest would loose the little amount of depth that I managed to give to it if I would make it brighter.
PS. The original was a HDR-image with tonal mapping.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
But I decided to give it a shot! The array of tools that photoshop provides for improving your pictures is endless. I decided that it is way too early for med to get into that field. So I have constrained myself to what Lightroom provides. So the changes I've made have affected all of the image, not just some part of it constrained by masking. So I wan't to know if I'm on the right way.
Short list of the changes:
* Big bump of contrast.
* Changed the tonal curve to give the two big trees, and the forest in general, more depth.
* The contrast showed some colors of the forest to be more saturated. So I targeted specific colors of the forest and made them less saturated.
* Made the photo more sharp.
* Removed annoying an annoying part of a tree with clone.
Yes, that sums it up. I have intentionally left the forest a little bit dark. The key-part of this picture is afterall the sunset. I also believed the forest would loose the little amount of depth that I managed to give to it if I would make it brighter.
PS. The original was a HDR-image with tonal mapping.
BEFORE:
AFTER: