paint shop pro 7 : moving mountains
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week 3 : color adjustments
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part two : additional image experiments
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after digging in the images i have on hand, i finally came up with a few that seemed to work with this week's correction tools. several i attempted to <choke> enhance ended up with lovely
histogram readings, but looked HORRIBLE. haha!
i plan to come back and work with these tools a bit more, as i am sure they will prove useful in the future, but my experimentation time is a bit limited for the next couple of weeks. |
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rgb adjustments: napolean
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original image
not only is this an odd looking little feline, the photo has turned the poor fellow green!
p.s. i see this little guy has been moved to the *successes* page at catsontheweb.org which means he has found a home...horrah!
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napolean adjusted
- rgb adjustments
- red: 0 green: 0 blue: 40
- auto color balance
- strength: 61
- temperature: 6555
- remove color cast checked
- auto contrast balance
- bias: lighter
- strength: mild
- appearance: bold
- auto saturation
- bias: normal
- strength: strong
- histogram adjustments
- gamma: 1.21
- midtones: -11
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level adjustments: house exterior
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original image
i felt the color in this shot was a bit washed out (perhaps it was a gray day?) and wanted to add a bit of
richness to the color.
i noticed here and in the following shot that after i made adjustments to the colors, i seem to be
losing some detail on the dark end. note the right/shadowed side of the porch. seems more fiddling is required when time
allows to strike a better balance between detail and color enhancement.
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adjusted exterior image
- histogram adjustments
- stretch
- gamma: 1.00
- midtones: -7
- levels adjustment (rgb)
- 24 - 1.00 - 215
- auto color correction
- strength: 67
- temperature: 6531
- auto contrast
- bias: darker
- strength: normal
- appearance: bold
- auto saturation
- bias: normal
- strength: weak
- unsharp mask
- radius: 2.50
- strength: 81
- clipping: 7
- layers and blend mode
- layer: duplicate
- blend mode: hue
- layer opacity: 52%
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rgb adjustments: house interior
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original image
a nice crisp photo (before hurried scanning & jpg compression ;-), but something in the lighting caused the colors to turn an unnatural
shade of pink. the walls should be a more creamy/buttery to tan and the sofa is a warm golden tan bordering on butterscotch. i worked from
memory of these two colors to correct the room.
note that once again, when correcting colors i have lost some of the darker end
detail, as in the painting on the black screen and the fireplace interior. still, i prefer the warmer more natural colors overall and they resulted in a much more evenly distributed
histogram graph.
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adjusted interior image
- histogram adjustments
- gamma: 0.96
- midtones: -7
- rgb adjustments
- red: -10 green: 0 blue: 0
- sofa selected and rgb reapplied to selection
- red: 5 green: 0 blue: 0
- auto contrast
- bias: neutral
- strength: normal
- appearance: bold
- auto saturation
- bias: normal
- strength: strong
- due to the colors and tones here, i tried checking skintones and it gave a good effect
- brightness/contrast
- brightness: -4
- contrast: 15
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