10 thoughts on “new b/w method”

  1. The new method is the circular selection tool with high feather, revert selection, gaussian blur, then fade blur by 80% =P

    Yea foo how about telling us about it?

  2. well, the photograph was originally soft
    other b/w pics are here (the repeated shot of the staircase is with different curves.

    channel mixer 68/68/-42, a particular curve (up and slightly down), and a soft or overlay of a particular grey shade that took me forever to pick. :P

    yeah its not a big deal but i *LOVE* the results.

  3. Did you use HDR for any of these? In the ones from the University of Toronto (thats what it is, isnt it?), the entrance looks very weird. Like its got blots of overexposure and the metal seems deformed. Not one of them doesnt suffer from this.

  4. nope, no hdr
    i was surprised too. but i think its the side effect that i love of killing the blue channels and boosting the RG ones. the contrast was controlled through curves (i usually use levels), and im looooooving it

  5. I was asking specifically thinking that it couldve been a side effect of working with some HDR (depending on your technique).

    Since you’re killing the blue channels, it makes sense if you were getting a blue hue out of the light coming in through the door. As you play around, you’ll find that there are a hell of a lot of ways of achieving something in photoshop, even if its something very specific. Layer blends, brushing, curves, levels, filters, automation, and so on. And thats without combining options.

    Ain’t it fun?

  6. yeah, i kept playing with HDR recently but my results haven’t been as satisfactory as the ones before (which i really liked).

    diny, thanks for the lecture :P problem is that it i am an annoying bastard and hate change in my workflow. thus, i still haven’t figured out how to use masks and if they are any use to me. and only recently figured out automations (YAY FOR AUTO DENOISE RESIZE RESHARP RESAVE).

  7. Yea, i’m thorough and lecturizing like that.

    Are these automations you’re talking about the same as actions? With actions, photoshop records whatever you do and then plays it back so that with just one action, you dont have to go like 50 menus for every single picture in a batch.

  8. I meant actual automate, which you can find under the file menu in CS2. In there, you can find possibly the best tool for HDR (no halos!), among other things….that I havent used because I have no use for them.

    If in case you never heard about this HDR tool (quite cool, I must say), then try these:
    http://backingwinds.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-create-professional-hdr-images.html nice simple tutorial.

    http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dynamic-range.htm tutorial but with more tech-talk.

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