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Re: Too dark?
Willy Kaemena 2005-Jun-23 20:52:00
Find here very nice tutorials for mastering the shadow / highlight
feature with all its parameters <http://www.russellbrown.com/
tips_tech.html> and many other useful things.
Willy
On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:11, rcrowest wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for their feedback. I've made some adjustments, and
> also re-calibrated my monitor: the ambient light makes an enormous
> difference to the way things appear, especially with the rather dim
> LCD panel on a laptop. My previous setting now looks hopelessly
> washed-out...
>
> --- In #removed#, Caroling Geary <#removed#> wrote:
> > I'd say you need to consider the aesthetic effect you want. On my
> Mac
> > set to dark gamma, there are black/shadow/dark areas, but they
> serve to
> > set the green colors to glowing. They are rather dramatic. I've
> gotten
> > in a habit of doing the Photoshop adjustment of shadow/highlight.
> There
> > is always much more detail in contrasty areas than first appears. I
> > like seeing the details. However, I always increase the midtone
> > contrast for definition and punch.
>
> Thanks, Caroling. The aesthetic effect was precisely my concern - I
> wanted it to look as close as possible to how it was when I was there.
> Willy kindly sent me an adjusted version which looked good and had
> strong colours, but felt like mid-day.
>
> Funnily enough, I just discovered the shadow/highlight adjustment
> yesterday. I'd never even spotted it before, being so far down the
> list, but it did exactly what I wanted, and that midtone contrast
> setting was a revelation. I had to go back and tweak things again,
> though - it had introduced some colour banding in the water surface,
> which I really didn't want to happen.
>
> I've ended up with what I hope is a good compromise. I'm uploading
> now, so fingers crossed...
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Richard
>
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