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I will post a trip report once I order it. It probably won't be for a week or so, though.
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Hey goons, I'm not sure whether this is the most apt thread for this but here goes: I'm a Photoshop user of about 13 or 14 years now give or take (v.5 LE representing) for all sorts of applications -I'm a fairly advanced user. There's a possibility I'll be getting work in a retouching studio in the near future and I was looking to get current on photo retouching techniques -one of the few areas I've never really 'read into', more felt it out as I went. I deeply understand the tools and the program, but I'd like to learn the tricks of the trade. What book would anyone recommend as the best catch-all to get a taste for things that isn't a hand-holdey 'this is a mask' guide? I'm erring towards one of Scott Kelby's books -can't go too far wrong- but if there's a hidden gem out there I'd love to hear about it DaveP fucked around with this message at 16:39 on May 25, 2012 |
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May 25, 2012 16:37
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if it is a retouching studio you will need to know how to use dodge and burn either with the tools or curve layers. It is simple and easy to google but time consuming and hard to perfect.
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May 25, 2012 22:35
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As my post detailed, I don't need to go over the basic stuff -I've done product photo retouching for a published work and supervised others doing the same- I'm looking for a good reference/resource for industry workflows for things like portrait/skin retouching & more advanced comps than 'here's how you do selective colour' or 'lets make DoF'
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May 26, 2012 21:01
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dodge burn is the industry standard for skin retouching.
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May 26, 2012 23:30
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Most of what the studio I work for sends to post houses is for color critical work such as changing colors of products, CMYK conversions and matching colors. I found that Martin Evening books are for more "advanced" users but some of it is hand holding. Lynda.com has some great tutorials but over all you should be fine with what you already know. Advanced masking like alpha channels/calculations is helpful with stuff like hair.
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Jun 1, 2012 06:06
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Is there a way to batch process a group of photos in LR or PS to automatically change the exposure to 1 stop under exposed? The set of photos in question range from -1 EV to +2 EV and I want to automatically change them all to the same EV.
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Jun 2, 2012 17:02
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Saint Fu posted:Is there a way to batch process a group of photos in LR or PS to automatically change the exposure to 1 stop under exposed? The set of photos in question range from -1 EV to +2 EV and I want to automatically change them all to the same EV. I know of how to do it in Bridge with Raw files so I can only imagine that you can do the same in lightroom. In bridge you open one photo with camera raw and then change the exposure and then just copy the development settings and paste to all the photos you want to apply the change to. In photoshop, you would probably just open the photo you want to change, record an action, and then save it. When you want to edit the batch, just go to image processing, and then apply the action. I'm sure there are a bunch of other ways but thats my first guess.
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Verman posted:I know of how to do it in Bridge with Raw files so I can only imagine that you can do the same in lightroom. It sounds to me like he/she wants to do something more complex. He/she has photos that vary in exposure and he/she wants them all to be set to the same exposure relative to the correct exposure, not the same exposure offset of the actual exposure. So he/she has one photo that is overexposed by 1 EV and another that is overexposed by 2 EV, and he/she wants both photos to be set to -1 EV relative to the correct exposure. Frankly I don't think it's possible to do this automatically. Maybe I'm misinterpreting. e: sorry for the presumptuous gender pronouns
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LargeHadron posted:It sounds to me like he/she wants to do something more complex. He/she has photos that vary in exposure and he/she wants them all to be set to the same exposure relative to the correct exposure, not the same exposure offset of the actual exposure. So he/she has one photo that is overexposed by 1 EV and another that is overexposed by 2 EV, and he/she wants both photos to be set to -1 EV relative to the correct exposure. Frankly I don't think it's possible to do this automatically. Maybe I'm misinterpreting. Ahh, I misread, I was thinking he/she wanted to bump everything +/- 1EV, not get everything to a specific EV. Yes I also don't know if that is possible
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Jun 4, 2012 18:51
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LargeHadron posted:It sounds to me like he/she wants to do something more complex. He/she has photos that vary in exposure and he/she wants them all to be set to the same exposure relative to the correct exposure, not the same exposure offset of the actual exposure. So he/she has one photo that is overexposed by 1 EV and another that is overexposed by 2 EV, and he/she wants both photos to be set to -1 EV relative to the correct exposure. Frankly I don't think it's possible to do this automatically. Maybe I'm misinterpreting. I've got a bunch of night photos I'm putting together for star trails and some of them were taken as the sun was starting to lighten the sky. If I blend them all as is (using the brightest pixel in each photo) then a bunch of the trails will be ignored because the ambient sky at the end of the series will be brighter than the stars from the beginning/middle. I was hoping to be able to reduce the exposure of the later photos so I could extend the length of the star trails for the brightest stars while the dimmer stars will sort of fade off. I could go in and hit auto then reduce the exposure on each one but 
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Verman posted:Yes I also don't know if that is possible
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What would be the easiest way to move pretty much all of my photos from my internal HD to an external? I'm using Lightroom. I remember last time I moved a whole bunch I had to tell Lightroom where to look for the photos in their new location for each folder individually. It was a bit of a pain.
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Jun 5, 2012 14:44
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Use LR's library module to move them. Just drag and drop, add the destination folder (in LR) first if it's not visible yet.
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big cheese posted:What would be the easiest way to move pretty much all of my photos from my internal HD to an external? I'm using Lightroom. I remember last time I moved a whole bunch I had to tell Lightroom where to look for the photos in their new location for each folder individually. It was a bit of a pain. You can export your library from within Lightroom.
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Jun 5, 2012 15:14
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evil_bunnY posted:The software has no clue what a good exposure is, so apart from doing the good old 17% gray I don't know what you could try.
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Saint Fu posted:I guess I want to click the auto button in LR for each picture then reduce exposure by 1 EV. Probably not possible to automate this. [edit] http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WS0E6E6886-E223-4050-B6E0-A97B5B62EF7D.html Any use? [editedit] ah sorry, that will only be the auto settings for the one photo, not a new auto setting for each. Maybe a photoshop action? NoneMoreNegative fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Jun 6, 2012 |
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Jun 6, 2012 15:04
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Martytoof posted:I'm looking for an OSX specific app that might or might not exist. The app in question should have / would be able to: I think you already found your answer but the default batch organization and metadata program is Photo Mechanic -- it fits these requirements (except, I suppose, that you can make it crop...) Highly recommended for people who are trying to organize and do selection on huge batches of images.
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Jun 8, 2012 21:00
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Suicide Watch posted:why is LR4 so much more CPU intensive than LR3?? this is annoying me... I used to be able to smack the export button and browse the internet while waiting for the export. Now the whole thing pauses while typing and mouse movement locks up every second. This is with an i7 sandybridge overclocked and 16 gigs of ram with a SSD. WTF?!!?
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Have you seen my apex seals? I seem to have lost them.
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Aeka 2.0 posted:I used to be able to smack the export button and browse the internet while waiting for the export. Now the whole thing pauses while typing and mouse movement locks up every second. This is with an i7 sandybridge overclocked and 16 gigs of ram with a SSD. WTF?!!? Same thing happened to me. It got so bad that my computer would actually shut itself off sometimes while in LR, especially during exports. That's when I opened up my box and saw that my CPU heatsink was covered in about 3 inches of dust. Cleaned it out, now LR runs very fast.
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LargeHadron posted:Same thing happened to me. It got so bad that my computer would actually shut itself off sometimes while in LR, especially during exports. That's when I opened up my box and saw that my CPU heatsink was covered in about 3 inches of dust. Cleaned it out, now LR runs very fast. I blow mine out with an air compressor every month =/
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LargeHadron posted:Same thing happened to me. It got so bad that my computer would actually shut itself off sometimes while in LR, especially during exports. That's when I opened up my box and saw that my CPU heatsink was covered in about 3 inches of dust. Cleaned it out, now LR runs very fast. Woops, had this very thing twice last night, time to open up the box and clean the dust bunnies out 
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Aeka 2.0 posted:I used to be able to smack the export button and browse the internet while waiting for the export. Now the whole thing pauses while typing and mouse movement locks up every second. This is with an i7 sandybridge overclocked and 16 gigs of ram with a SSD. WTF?!!? I have what I assume is the same setup and lr4 actually runs better than lr3 did on my old computer. I was nervous to upgrade after everyone mentioned these issues and I'm happy to say I haven't had a single issue with lr4.
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CarrotFlowers posted:I have what I assume is the same setup and lr4 actually runs better than lr3 did on my old computer. I was nervous to upgrade after everyone mentioned these issues and I'm happy to say I haven't had a single issue with lr4. I thought I was going to have issues as well, but mine runs buttery smooth and I've only got an i5 with 8gb of ram and an SSD. Aeka have you upgraded to 4.1 yet?
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If LR4 really chokes your machine something is wrong. At worst cranking down the LR priority one notch should get you back to a responsive desktop.
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I had posted earlier about LR4 issues and after scouring a few incredibly long adobe forum posts found a solution that worked for me. As in, I can now use sliders without delay, brushing is significantly closer to LR 3 performance, etc. It had to do with making application specific settings on my nVidia card for LR - I am on my phone right now but I can copy down the settings when I get home if anyone is interested.
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rio posted:I had posted earlier about LR4 issues and after scouring a few incredibly long adobe forum posts found a solution that worked for me. As in, I can now use sliders without delay, brushing is significantly closer to LR 3 performance, etc. It had to do with making application specific settings on my nVidia card for LR - I am on my phone right now but I can copy down the settings when I get home if anyone is interested. Oh poo poo I want to know this. I just assumed a Q6600 and a GT8800 were past it now 
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Jun 12, 2012 23:10
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The solution that has worked for nearly everyone has been to upgrade to LR 4.1.
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I run LR4 and it functions pretty well for what hardware I run (core2duo, 2GB ram  ). If I click export and browse around, it's not slow at all. Like evil_bunnY said, something has to be up.
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Steve McScene posted:Oh poo poo I want to know this. I just assumed a Q6600 and a GT8800 were past it now I have a GTS8800 and e2180 clocked to 2.44 and this really did make the program useable for such modest specs. I couldn't find the post that told me the settings so I will list my own - some little things appear differently on other cards so just approximate. Anisotropic filtering :off Antialiasing - Gamma correction : off " - Mode : Override any app setting " - Setting : 2x " - Transparency : off CUDA - GPUs : use global setting (all) Maximum prerendered frames : use global setting (3) Multi display/mixed GPU acceleration : compatibility performance mode Texture filtering - anisotropic sample optimization : on " - negative LOD bias : allow " - quality : performance " - trilinear optimization : on Threaded optimization : use global setting (auto) Triple buffering : use global setting (off) texture filtering - anisotropic filter optimization : off Vertical sync : use the 3d app setting I assigned all of these setting to lightroom.exe from the NVIDIA control panel.
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Sweet. Also can anyone explain why clarity in LR4 is different to LR3? It used to just be like an unsharp mask but not it properly fucks with the contrast of the whole image? Kinda lame.
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Is there any way to get rid of this windshield glare with photoshop? Subie 001 by Jenseales, on Flickr
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Filters, Windsheild glare filter. In all seriousness, no, not without a hell of a lot of work. Muuuuuch easier to shoot it correctly to begin with to eliminate any sort of reflection like that..
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Jun 22, 2012 06:53
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And by shoot correctly he means use a polarizer.
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Similar to this:big cheese posted:What would be the easiest way to move pretty much all of my photos from my internal HD to an external? I'm using Lightroom. I remember last time I moved a whole bunch I had to tell Lightroom where to look for the photos in their new location for each folder individually. It was a bit of a pain. If I re-import my photos, is there a way for Lightroom 3.6 to recognize (most) of them as already in the catalogue, just update the directory information? /\/\/\/ I found that. The problem is I've got about 200 directories to do that way. I'm hoping there's an automated method. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Jun 23, 2012 |
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I can't remember what the exact nomenclature is, but there's a "Locate missing file" or "Update this location" in the Library module in the folders list. Normally when you just move stuff, finding one file will find every other file that was in the same directory structure. Since you also did some reorganization you'll have a couple extra runs through, but it should still be fast and easy enough.
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The lightroom export/import catalog works pretty great for that. I use a macbook on vacations to clear off my SD card, then when I get home I export the catalogs and import them on my windows machine. This process saves any edits you did to the images too.
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Turd Nelson posted:Is there any way to get rid of this windshield glare with photoshop? it's already been stated, but a circular polarizer produces effects which range from almost impossible to duplicate in photoshop (such as reflection attenuation) to easily doable in photoshop, but even easier in real life with a polarizer. When I shoot outside during the day, my CPL never leaves the lens.
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So, as a slightly colorblind person I have trouble color correcting pictures. Environmental stuff is a little easier, but skintones can be pretty rough. I'll change stuff to what I think looks better, only to have other people tell me there's some sort of cast of various colors mucking things up. To try and compensate for this I have been messing around with a photoshop plugin, iCorrect Portrait (http://www.pictocolor.com/portrait.htm). You basically can make multiple selections both for stuff you want to remain neutral (ala lightroom's white balance eyedropper), and for areas you can mark as skin tones, and it works its magic to change the various colors of different things on the screen as appropriate. It seems to be doing a pretty good job by my (terrible) eyes; can anyone tell me if the following pictures have any significantly messed up skintones? From what I understand, the program can go a little overboard making people look more tan than they are, but is generally accurate to color cast free skintones. This is all shot on Portra 400, late afternoon sun but mostly shaded where we were:        WE DID NOT GRILL THE BABY OK
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In the fifth picture, highlights look like magenta saturation is a tiny bit too high, but overall they look good.
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