Michael Gerald-Yamasaki
09-08-2010, 10:05 PM
http://yamo.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v18/p673898612.jpg
You decide if this counts as filter abuse ;). I was trying to maximize detail and contrast on what I thought was a fairly detailed image of an Anna's Hummingbird at a feeder. Between 20 and 30 layers for this one. The primary effects were:
For detail: 2 rounds of Topaz Detail 2 mostly small detail, a posterize filter with maximum intensity and Posterization settings, but 0 edge thickness. crop and posterization artifact removal (little black dots everywhere).
For contrast: Lightness (luminance) and Color contrast via LAB Curves layers. Successive pushing of the spread of color/lightness in all three channels such that there are high and low extremes in each channel giving maximum color ranges from green to magenta and from yellow to blue. Several curves layers were used to avoid blowing channels and losing color contrast in the bargain.
Corrections: Pushing the color also pushed the reflection of the red feeder prominently across the hummer's breast. Used a curves layer to selectively remove the red. Blended color contrast layer above with detail layer. Multiplied in some of the green/orangish highlights, painted in the red gorget (over black).
Finally inverted the green background to violet and brought out some blue to contrast with green and orange respectively. And global and selective sharpening.
Unfortunately the detail is too much for a 200K jpeg (1000x600 image at 70% was near 500K).
Learned a lot about LAB curves on this one... a more labor intensive saturation tool, but I really like it.
Thanks for looking/commenting.
Cheers,
-Michael-
You decide if this counts as filter abuse ;). I was trying to maximize detail and contrast on what I thought was a fairly detailed image of an Anna's Hummingbird at a feeder. Between 20 and 30 layers for this one. The primary effects were:
For detail: 2 rounds of Topaz Detail 2 mostly small detail, a posterize filter with maximum intensity and Posterization settings, but 0 edge thickness. crop and posterization artifact removal (little black dots everywhere).
For contrast: Lightness (luminance) and Color contrast via LAB Curves layers. Successive pushing of the spread of color/lightness in all three channels such that there are high and low extremes in each channel giving maximum color ranges from green to magenta and from yellow to blue. Several curves layers were used to avoid blowing channels and losing color contrast in the bargain.
Corrections: Pushing the color also pushed the reflection of the red feeder prominently across the hummer's breast. Used a curves layer to selectively remove the red. Blended color contrast layer above with detail layer. Multiplied in some of the green/orangish highlights, painted in the red gorget (over black).
Finally inverted the green background to violet and brought out some blue to contrast with green and orange respectively. And global and selective sharpening.
Unfortunately the detail is too much for a 200K jpeg (1000x600 image at 70% was near 500K).
Learned a lot about LAB curves on this one... a more labor intensive saturation tool, but I really like it.
Thanks for looking/commenting.
Cheers,
-Michael-