What ho one and all, I am a diligent lurker on this site and do not feel that my PhotoShop skills are worthy of the various challenges. I have Dan's books but have to admit, that in many areas, the te

I’ve posted the first pass of our Niagara Spray study as described below. Reviewing: This is an iPhone capture of a young Italian woman on her first trip to North America. We had allowed her to pick o

While discussion continues of the Niagara shot, I’ve posted the next case study, again due Monday, for those who need the extra time to work on it. This, and next week’s exercise as well, come from th

In the process of solving a "crop" problem with an image I had submitted to the Cinque Terre case study, I asked Dan how he verifies submitted images match up to the default jpeg he uses as a referenc

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The biggest surprise in the techniques here is how many people used a strategy of blending multiple images, but probably that has to do with the nature of this image. The tactics in use here were not

These are my notes on the specific versions in this case study. I thank all participants and hope you found it worthwhile. 301 is not much different from a default open in Camera Raw. 302 Lots of nice

While discussion continues of the veiled bride, I’ve posted the next case study, again due Monday, for those who need the extra time to work on it. Find it in our Photos section, labeled Case Study: N

These words, from PP1E (1994) remind us that, like bridal outfits, certain concepts don’t change. This post is about the techniques we used. In a separate post, I have an analysis of each version, som

Here’s a little exercise that you can try while I prepare a few more posts about this veiled image. I hope you will agree with me that #319 is hideous, way overdone, she looks like some kind of vampir

I’ve posted the first pass of our Veiled Bride study as described below. Reviewing: This is one of 5,000 images taken from the MIT study, of which 100 were randomly chosen for my own testing. Five ret

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

By popular demand, more or less, we’ll try another one. Choosing a particular exercise is nuisance because no one image is interesting to everyone, nor does every image illustrate every possible techn

For those that are interested, here's an abstract of an academic article titled "Red, Purple and Pink: The Colors of Diffusion on Pinterest." You can click on the link in the prior sentence to read th

It might be an interesting test to see if sRGB would normally be better for extracting channels for blending. My own sense is that, since channel blending is likely to be called for when there is miss

Ok I have customers who do not want to pay for my skills or basically anything. I have taught my people (not high designers) to use Photolemur and On1 for quick results or the Panel. Hell I loved scan

When faced with multiple problems in the same image it pays to plan out the approach before striking out in all directions at once. Here, how much work should be done in RGB? How much in RGB? In CMYK?

Having read over the notes of those who participated in this case study, first I want to thank everybody for being so complete in their descriptions of what they did. This has not always been the case

I’ve posted the first pass of our Carnival study as described below. Reviewing: we are given a silhouetted shot of a person wearing a brilliantly red costume. The file is in Adobe RGB, but unfortunate

hello colortheory group, If this note is illegally submitted, please discard.. this series lends itself to the ‘make several’ and merge for the best… I did not submit anything so please refer to the c