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The original:
After saturation we've got hue and luminance. Hue values respectively are:
-9
39
-2
-4
0
0
0
-17
And Luminance:
3
0
54
The rest are 0
The only thing of importance to note here is that usage of the tone curve is based solely on personal preference. Messing around with it is the best way to get a feel for what may become your personal style.
Another very important tool and sensitive to minor adjustments is the split toning panel. I actually find these sliders of more use when doing black and white conversions. It's the easiest way to create color toning in highlights and shadow areas. You can actually also use the adjustment brush to add highlight and shadow tone colors, but that's more for selective areas rather than the entire image.
Lastly, a bit of tweaking with these sliders, and the post crop vignetting to add the nice white border.
I don't really want to go on a full out rant about processing here, so I'll leave it at this unless someone has a question. I only created this thread because of a PM I received and so if you have a specific question Brunhild, I'd be more than happy to try and help. If you need further specific questions answered, I'd also be happy to answer them in private via PM's or just add me to your IM client.
There are some great LR books out there, I'm partial to Martin Evening's book but to be honest, have tinkered more on my own than have gotten info from the book. There are also a ton of LR video tutorials out there, though I'm going to warn you against buying into anything that Scot Kelby is selling... most of what he sells is his brand name, and not so much information otherwise IMO. Kind of a hack...
Victoria Bampton is pretty cool and a very nice girl, easy to talk to. She runs the unofficial LR forums and also has a few books published.
I'd also suggest looking for and downloading as many "presets" as you can find. Presets are a gateway to learning how certain processes create a certain look. For instance, I can take all those settings that you see, and create a preset from them. When you go through presets, you can get a good idea of what kind of look you're hoping to achieve, use it as a guide or baseline, and then work off of that. Some call it cheating, yet it's anything but. In fact, presets can be applied to a group of photos during the import stage. Has its uses.
That's it for now I guess. And.. this wasn't meant to come off as some kind of instructional guide or anything. Such a thing from me would be far more detailed and lengthy! Not ready to write a book as such... I was however pondering putting together a guide, describing the differences between iPhoto/Aperture/LR/PS/PSE. One day... just fer you guys.
Doug
Doug
After saturation we've got hue and luminance. Hue values respectively are:
-9
39
-2
-4
0
0
0
-17
And Luminance:
3
0
54
The rest are 0
The only thing of importance to note here is that usage of the tone curve is based solely on personal preference. Messing around with it is the best way to get a feel for what may become your personal style.
Another very important tool and sensitive to minor adjustments is the split toning panel. I actually find these sliders of more use when doing black and white conversions. It's the easiest way to create color toning in highlights and shadow areas. You can actually also use the adjustment brush to add highlight and shadow tone colors, but that's more for selective areas rather than the entire image.
Lastly, a bit of tweaking with these sliders, and the post crop vignetting to add the nice white border.
I don't really want to go on a full out rant about processing here, so I'll leave it at this unless someone has a question. I only created this thread because of a PM I received and so if you have a specific question Brunhild, I'd be more than happy to try and help. If you need further specific questions answered, I'd also be happy to answer them in private via PM's or just add me to your IM client.
There are some great LR books out there, I'm partial to Martin Evening's book but to be honest, have tinkered more on my own than have gotten info from the book. There are also a ton of LR video tutorials out there, though I'm going to warn you against buying into anything that Scot Kelby is selling... most of what he sells is his brand name, and not so much information otherwise IMO. Kind of a hack...
Victoria Bampton is pretty cool and a very nice girl, easy to talk to. She runs the unofficial LR forums and also has a few books published.
I'd also suggest looking for and downloading as many "presets" as you can find. Presets are a gateway to learning how certain processes create a certain look. For instance, I can take all those settings that you see, and create a preset from them. When you go through presets, you can get a good idea of what kind of look you're hoping to achieve, use it as a guide or baseline, and then work off of that. Some call it cheating, yet it's anything but. In fact, presets can be applied to a group of photos during the import stage. Has its uses.
That's it for now I guess. And.. this wasn't meant to come off as some kind of instructional guide or anything. Such a thing from me would be far more detailed and lengthy! Not ready to write a book as such... I was however pondering putting together a guide, describing the differences between iPhoto/Aperture/LR/PS/PSE. One day... just fer you guys.
Doug
Doug