I'm glad that gives you some ideas. I'm happy to send you the Photoshop CS2 file with all layers intact of what I did, if you want to see what and how I worked on it. It's about a 2Mbyte file in .zip format if you'd like it.
:-) Godfrey On Apr 25, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Toralf Lund wrote: > >> Looking at all three, they don't express to me that feeling of "dark >> with glistening wetness" that I think it what you're trying for. They >> just seem flat and dullish in appearance. >> >> I like the composition though, so I bunged about in a heavy handed >> way with curves adjustment tools [ ... ] >> >> Hope you don't mind my posting the result ... > No, by all means. If you like that kind if thing, just go ahead. > Especially if you can make it look better, and tell people that it's > mine ;-) >> Let me know and I'll >> pull it. >> http://homepage.mac.com/godders/samson2-g.jpg >> > Yeah. I think you understand what I was trying to do, and you're > probably on to something here. It does look a bit crude, though, and > there's perhaps something slightly "wrong" with the highlights. But I > suppose it's what you can expect when starting off with a scaled-down > jpg file. > > Maybe I should try to do a more proper "curves" adjustment to the > high-res TIFFs from the scanner (one of which is available as > images/samson2.tif on the same web server, by the way)... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
