I mostly deal with black and white prints and I'm mostly interested in How To get the gray tones back into a black b&w photo and at the same time *keeping* the highlighs and shadows. For example this

I mostly deal with black and white prints and I'm mostly interested in How To get the gray tones back into a black b&w photo and at the same time *keeping* the highlighs and shadows. For example this

What's the best way to smooth skin on photos? I've seen *those* web sites where the girls skin looks real smooth. How do you do that? Is it bluring AB channels? Thanks Hector Davila

Why is this? I'm just expermenting. I take an old Tin Type photo. I then adjusted in Lab for contrast. I then change to CMYK and I deleted the Black channel (since I see a lot of scratches and spots i

Thanks everyone for the "Smooth SKin" techniques, I'm now an expert!

http://home.netcom.com/~amerphoto/TinType/ http://home.netcom.com/~amerphoto/TinType/tintype.html The third photo I deleted the CMYK Black channel. Tintype-3.JPG samarsh@... wrote:

What would be a faster and better method to accomplish the same end result as instructed on this web page? http://w3.nai.net/~tomh/sa_howto_harli.htm Thanks, Hector Davila Dan Margulis wrote:

Hi, What is the way to remove red spotty stains from a photo besides clonning? http://home.netcom.com/~hldpub/Sample/Sample-one.html Thanks, Hector Davila

Thanks for the tips everyone. Everyone suggestions will take some time for me to learn and perfect them. I was looking for a 'fast' way because I saw that if I simply deleted the B in LAB Channel, all

APR wrote: Thanks, I fixed it. http://home.netcom.com/~hldpub/Sample/Photos12345.htm Thanks, Hector Davila

COLOR THEORY (in big colorful letters) Professional Photoshop 7 (sub-title) or Dan Margulis (in big colorful letters) Professional Photoshop 7 (sub-title) Hector Davila

I have a question asked of me many times, but I don't know the answer. Is it possibe to determined the 'colors' of a black and white photo? Can you tell using photoshop tools if a woman's dress in a b

Most Photoshop plugins do what can be done manually in photoshop. Does anyone know how to reveal the detail in the shadows manually in photoshop? Common photography exposure problems include backlit s

Hi, Anyone out there know where I can download a good Color Test Image photo? Something like this stuff: http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/new%20images/750-test2.jpg Thanks, Hector Davila

Since this is about Colortheory, ...why is it that the Primary colors of Light RGB are different from the Primary colors of paint RYB? Since the laws of the universe is suppose to be the same eveywher

I use color photos to 'sample' from when I need to color a black and white photo. The problem I'm having is finding Flesh color to sample from. Since most stock photos of people are not really 'true'

Also, one other note...I guess that when photograpers take pictures of people, they are trying to capture a Look or some dramatic theme instead of the True Color of a person, ...which could explain wh

Whoever killed your Mac is at fault! Hector Davila APR DMargulis@... wrote:

I didn't know that 'highlights' can be used as whitepoints. I thought I read somewhere in Dan's book that you shouldn't do that. But I left the book home so I'm not sure. Hector Davila Jim Rich wrote:

Just a thought on color theory. About this finding the white point and the netural gray business. Sometimes I run into old photos that have no white area, highlights or netural gray. And I don't have