Desaturation

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:53:58 -0400, Tony Cooper
wrote:

Sometimes bright colors add to a photograph, but there are times when
they dominate the image to the detriment of the image. I liked this
image of the girl in the red hat, but the red seemed to just take over
the image. Looking back over some old images, I decided to see what
it would look like desaturated but not to the point of being a
monochrome.

Here's both the original (2015-01-06-9A) and the desaturated version
(2015-01-06-9B).

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/abn35vcs3...wqKopO-ua?dl=0

I too have experimented with desaturation. My preferred technique is
to duplicate a layer, convert one of the layers to monochrome and then
play around with the blend ratio.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/_DSC6466.jpg is an
example.

There is a staircase going up the centre of the image. If you look
carefully you will see that near the bottom of the stairs there are
people who have not been desaturated.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens