I would like to have a thread on what we have learned in this series, but first a couple of commercial plugs. If you think that this type of image studies or competitions or whatever you may call them

On Aug 5, 2020, at 10:00 PM, Thomas Hurd,MD via groups.io <tomhurd@...> wrote in the Red Roses thread: What I learned this summer! Luminosity and contrast rule the image The wrong color is can destroy

On Jun 16, 2020, at 1:17 PM, Alec Dann via groups.io <alec.dann@...> wrote in the Cinque Terre thread: Dan, You mention that colors are often remembered as being more saturated than they were at the t

On Aug 5, 2020, at 9:46 AM, jorgeparraphotography <jorgeparraphotography@...> wrote: On a very specific note I need to understand like right now what is the "Convert to RGB" button in Dan's PPW doing,

On Jul 8, 2020, at 2:58 PM, Rick Gordon <lists@...> wrote: What I've done for the last couple of weeks is to download all of the entries and: Load them each into a separate layer with File > Scripts >

Unfortunately, I only entered the fray midway. I had not realised all my notifications were being sent to a scam folder. I am not a retoucher, I am what is now called a keen hobbyist photographer. To

Dan, At about 10:10 in your video on Chapter 5 - Color Boost, you make some moves to compare versions. Can you tell me what you are doing there? It's not evident in the video. If you or the group have

Not much need to discuss specific techniques here as most people used (with some variations, naturally) the same general approach of attacking the red channel, plus various tweaks with channel curves.

I’ve posted the results of the last in pir series of 11 studies. Reviewing: This seems like a fairly routine shot of a rose, the sort of flower image found in every photographer’s portfolio. It is fro

Our eleventh and final case study returns us to the topic of the very first one: how to handle a large, bright red object. This should be easier than the Carnival study, where the instructions were to

Applied Color Theory list https://groups.io/g/colortheory General Description and Rules (This document is posted monthly) THE MOVE TO GROUPS.IO In November 2019, this list moved from yahoogroups to gr

(continued from Part 1) 1112 Good color, slightly washed out due to an overly light road. Comparing it to some others seems to me to indicate that there are advantages to having more detail in the sky

Either I had a lot to say about these submissions or I am suffering from boredom while hiding out from the virus. In view of the length, I’ll cut these comments into two parts. Comments I made at the

I’ve posted the results of the Adirondacks study, the penultimate in a series of 11 studies beginning with one provided by Roberto Tartaglione and continuing with ten chosen by me. Reviewing: This par

Here are comments on the individual submissions in this case study. As with a couple of others, there were so many good versions that nobody should take my quick choices for the par version too seriou

After the portrait we've just finished, we return to nature for our final two studies. Find the first one in our Photos section, labeled Case Study: Adirondacks. The original is a JPEG from a decent S

I’ve posted the results of the Seated in the Grass Study. Reviewing: This is the final portrait in our series of case studies and is another example taken from the MIT retouching set. The original fil

Dan et al., I sent this to Dan’s account but I meant to post to Dan and the group. I had a problem with my profile changing From sRGB to generic RGB when I share from Photoshop. It does not occur when

901 Chosen for the par version. This person created the most exciting version with a relatively simple procedure. He balanced the colors normally and added a lot of Vibrance. He added shape with two a

Three more case studies to go, so While discussion continues of the Toast to Greece shot, I’ve posted our final portrait, another selection from the MIT study. Therefore, as with the other MIT exercis