Extremetrek From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 32 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 2038 times:
Greetings All!
Now that I have posting access I would absolutely love for you to take a look at my most recent rejection. By no means do I think that the rejection was in error, nor is this my favorite picture just the most recently rejected. I am merely looking to recieve hints and tips on my edit and how to improve in my editing process. I did with this the same things I do will all of my photos. Leveling, Levels, saturation, contrast, unsharp mask. My camera is the Panasonic Lumix FZ-5.
Extremetrek From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 32 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1998 times:
Eadster,
Thanks for having a go at it. If its not too much trouble could you post the steps you take as well as the finalized picture? I don't plan to reupload using anyone else's edit and as I stated in the original post, would just like to use this as a learning experience.
Thanks again,
John
Even scientists say...everything is just light...not created/destroyed but eternally bright!
Extremetrek From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 32 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1959 times:
AJ,
Thanks for the edit...could you please post the steps you took to get to this edit? Thanks a million!
John
Even scientists say...everything is just light...not created/destroyed but eternally bright!
Viv From Ireland, joined May 2005, 3106 posts, RR: 31 Reply 5, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1951 times:
The final edit looks good, although the crop is a bit too tight for my taste. But the tail was up against the frame on the original, so not much can be done about it.
Nikon D700, Nikkor 80-400, Fuji X Pro 1, Fujinon 35 f/1.4, Fujinon 18 f/2
Eadster From Australia, joined Jan 2005, 2214 posts, RR: 16 Reply 6, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1927 times:
Mine came out pretty much the same.
The steps I took are as follows (feel free to add anyone!):
Steps of PhotoShop CS2
1. Level the shot
2. Apply colour correction (image -> adjustments -> auto colour) and check histogram (image -> adjustments -> levels). Should be no flat areas at the start of the end of the graph.
3. Crop image to desired size, usuall around 1100 px wide or 1024 wide.
4. Equalise the shot to suss out any dust spots.
5. Copy the existing layer to make two layers.
6. Apply USM to top layer. (filter -> sharpen -> unsharp mask). Adjust percentage accordingly. Radius = 0.2 threshold = 0 (these will be different for different users).
7. If jaggies appear, erase these from the top layer - the smoother versions will then appear from the bottom layer.
8. Export (ctrl + alt + shift + S), making sure that the file size it not over 1mb.
That's how it comes to that...I think! Hope I have not missed anything along the way.
Extremetrek From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 32 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1895 times:
Martin,
Thanks for the steps. Thats pretty much what I do as well, except checking for dust spots, which is something I am just NO GOOD at seeing. I guess in this case the problem was the original photo and not the editing steps. Thanks for the assistance!
John
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