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Question on Saturation
"The PhAnToM" schrieb im Newsbeitrag oups.com... Hi- I was wondering if there was a trick to getting rid of bright color saturation (especially white) in digital photos without compromising the color levels in the rest of the shot (i.e., making the whole photo too dark)? Or is this just an artifact of taking photos with a CCD that has to be lived with? Thanks. Photoshop Elements 3 has a feature that lets you reduce highlights and / or make dark spots lighter. HTH robert |
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Robert Klemme wrote: "The PhAnToM" schrieb im Newsbeitrag oups.com... Hi- I was wondering if there was a trick to getting rid of bright color saturation (especially white) in digital photos without compromising the color levels in the rest of the shot (i.e., making the whole photo too dark)? Or is this just an artifact of taking photos with a CCD that has to be lived with? Thanks. Photoshop Elements 3 has a feature that lets you reduce highlights and / or make dark spots lighter. Mmm. You mean the burn tool? Or is it some other tool? I have PS 7.0 (made work buy it for me, and of course my backup copy is on my home laptop :^). The parts that are fully saturated contain no variation in data, unfortunately, so burn doesn't work _that_ well on monochromatic saturated areas, for instance. It _does_ work well if there are different levels and colors that came out too bright in the original image. What I am talking about is like on the swan's back in the link to the bird photos that Deko posted in the max-zoom thread. I think this has to be compensated for at the front end (taking the picture). When the white is super saturated it has like a blue tint too it (hmm, like maybe the blue cells are dominating the pixel, or is it the reverse?). Thanks for the suggestion just the same. Maybe I shouldn't assume too much. (goes to download the swan picture to see what can be done with it) Zach |
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The PhAnToM wrote:
Robert Klemme wrote: "The PhAnToM" schrieb im Newsbeitrag oups.com... Hi- I was wondering if there was a trick to getting rid of bright color saturation (especially white) in digital photos without compromising the color levels in the rest of the shot (i.e., making the whole photo too dark)? Or is this just an artifact of taking photos with a CCD that has to be lived with? Thanks. Photoshop Elements 3 has a feature that lets you reduce highlights and / or make dark spots lighter. Mmm. You mean the burn tool? Or is it some other tool? I have PS 7.0 (made work buy it for me, and of course my backup copy is on my home laptop :^). The parts that are fully saturated contain no variation in data, unfortunately, so burn doesn't work _that_ well on monochromatic saturated areas, for instance. It _does_ work well if there are different levels and colors that came out too bright in the original image. What I am talking about is like on the swan's back in the link to the bird photos that Deko posted in the max-zoom thread. I think this has to be compensated for at the front end (taking the picture). When the white is super saturated it has like a blue tint too it (hmm, like maybe the blue cells are dominating the pixel, or is it the reverse?). Thanks for the suggestion just the same. Maybe I shouldn't assume too much. (goes to download the swan picture to see what can be done with it) Let me know if that egret turns into a swan...=) The snowy egret is just truly that intense of white and the feathers are so ....well feathery.. that it looks flat white with little detail. I had no polarizing filter when I took those either but I doubt it would have made much difference.. Those as posted have had an unsharp mask used on the egret and may have been contrast adjusted for sharpness too because of the added digital zoom they were not quite sharp as taken. Then for the web page compressed and resized so are not high quality jpegs to play with anyway. I can email you an original jpeg file to play with if you like. -- Laurel T Terraholm Border Terriers www.terraholm.com |
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Thanks for the suggestion just the same. Maybe I shouldn't assume
too much. (goes to download the swan picture to see what can be done with it) Let me know if that egret turns into a swan...=) Oops. I guess I should have looked at it again today, instead of just glancing at it from last night... The snowy egret is just truly that intense of white and the feathers are so ...well feathery.. that it looks flat white with little detail. I had no polarizing filter when I took those either but I doubt it would have made much difference.. Those as posted have had an unsharp mask used on the egret and may have been contrast adjusted for sharpness too because of the added digital zoom they were not quite sharp as taken. Then for the web page compressed and resized so are not high quality jpegs to play with anyway. I can email you an original jpeg file to play with if you like. Sure. I will attempt my feeble Photoshop skills on it... Zach |
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The PhAnToM wrote:
I can email you an original jpeg file to play with if you like. Sure. I will attempt my feeble Photoshop skills on it... Did you get my emails OK? -- Laurel T Terraholm Border Terriers www.terraholm.com |
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Hi- I was wondering if there was a trick to getting rid of bright color
saturation (especially white) in digital photos without compromising the color levels in the rest of the shot (i.e., making the whole photo too dark)? Or is this just an artifact of taking photos with a CCD that has to be lived with? Thanks. Some cameras have internal settings that artificially augment the colors, to make the photographs look more "striking." Most of these cameras have settings to adjust the degree to which the image is enhanced, so if your camera allows it, you might try using a lower enhancement setting. -Joel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free 35mm lens/digicam reviews: http://www.exc.com/photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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