Dan, what magic you work with your knowledge and skills. Thanks for your generous efforts to not only host the images and reviews; but also your insight and feedback for each of us and for providing a

Our home photo album is a digital display that changes images every 15 seconds...turns off if nobody around, wakes up if you walk by, sleep mode at night. We simply manage a folder of images shared by

Mine is # 408. With photo title ("beach at sunset") and sky colors, I knew the sunset was as important as the girl in view, so I tried to make it a sunset scene with bright colorful, but dusk sky, and

#case-study-results

1) For each of #308, #309, and #336, I request that you assign a letter grade (A+ is best, C- is worst because I don’t think there are any Ds or Fs here) *Overall color feeling? 308 309 336 *Presentat

I don't have access to Dan's books (they are at home and I'm on vacation). So now I'm curious...I now have Lab #s memorized and a handy cheat sheet if I forget....but I have no clue what the equivalen

my .jpg downloaded size is 3134x2131 Doug Schafer

Thanks for clarifying...makes complete sense now. I probably made an error in my correction. Doug Schafer

Dan, Thanks for such a lengthy review and providing so much info. I will read again and try some of your ideas to see the combinations via blending 2 images. I do have 1 question. You did not mention

Not familiar with a mantilla, I looked it up on Google: its the veil: noun: mantilla; plural noun: mantillas a lace or silk scarf worn by women over the hair and shoulders, especially in Spain. Doug S

James and Kirk, regarding brightness as seen on monitor vs. printed etc. Maybe Dan will comment, but for now I'd add ... Long ago I read about difficulties with prints being too dark compared to Ps co

My first reaction to all was to look at images overall and looking for black dresses, correct skin colors, and most looked pretty good. But I felt the distinguishing images had good hair, teeth, lips,

Dan, In your next review after reading notes, Can you also comment on how we did for: brightness, contrast, color saturation; What is right what is wrong, and most importantly any tips on how to judge

My "test" for WB was the top HVAC duct and assumed it should be near white/grey...could be slightly blue from skylight/windows or slightly yellow from indoor lighting (and it looked too dirty for a pr

Wow, such a good response of 141 images....there is a lot of interest. My quick, summary: Very few really wrong. Seems like way too many lack contrast and look flat (and likely too dark or too light t

Dan, Can you comment on Hotel Lobby submissions: what would be your max. file size expected .jpg, so we can assess our submissions to not exceed file size submitted?...and to avoid too large files in

My thought process (in no way disagrees with Dan)..... Suggest you run your own tests. You won't get the math answer and I doubt Adobe would ever release the info (proprietary), but you will have a ma

#colortheory #photoshop #lightroom #colors

One quick question: I now mostly work in 16bit. Must the images we submit be in 8bit? or is 16bit sRGB OK? if so, 90% .jpg OK? (as "export as", to .jpg) (as opposed to "save as") Doug Schafer

My categories now would be: - corrections: fixing things that are wrong (to make them correct)(for example making skin/sky/water/plant/soil color and/or texture look realistic). - interpretations: app

If anyone is also looking for or interested in another plugin tool for Ps for color toning mapping; both extracting and applying, look here: https://ninobatista.zenfolio.com/nbp-colourmapx-plug-in-for

And one other thought. Since color grading stems from video/movie production . . . the reasons for color grading are often either technical (to fix coloring to match a desired result) or emotional; in