Colours,Textures

[Stoned]

Playing with colours and textures and focus fall-off. Comments appreciated.

 

[Stoned]

on a lighter note

 

[JAG]

like the softness in 2

 

[Belle&Sebastain]

on a lighter note

good one! nice caption!

 

[Stoned]

Thanks appreciate the comments

 

[SniperD]

hi Stoned,

did some enhancements to your photos. In particular, I like the Celestial Transport .. very humorous of you

Did some burning in for you. You are using film right? If you are, after scanning in, you still have to do a little sharpening

 

[Stoned]

wow :bigeyes: thanks can really see the difference! may i ask what you did? My PS skill is quite :thumbsd: ; limited to levels adjustment and similar stuff.

and yes im using film. How do you tell?

 

[SniperD]

wow :bigeyes: thanks can really see the difference! may i ask what you did? My PS skill is quite :thumbsd: ; limited to levels adjustment and similar stuff.

and yes im using film. How do you tell?

for "Celestial Transport"

- always work on a new copy (CTRL+J) for Win or (Apple sign+J) for MAC
- play with CURVES 1st to bring the highlights down as your orig is overexp
- Increase the contrast very slightly
- Burn tools to saturate and deepen the colors of darker areas
- Unsharpen mask

for "Ginseng"

- always work on a new copy (CTRL+J) for Win or (Apple sign+J) for MAC
- play with Contrast to +9
- Burn tool to burn in the shadows and darker areas
- adjusted the levels a little to bring back some of the lighter shade details lost during contrast adjustments
- Unsharpen mask

Well... after a while you should be able to tell if it's film or digital lah... besides, the pics looked film-like (latitude I guess) and your avatar showed you with a film cam

 

[Stoned]

argh i use PS elements so dont think i have curves, do I? But thanks SniperD for the rest of the advice. Will attempt to duplicate your success now.

cheh, looked at my avatar to tell :bsmilie: