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quazi posted:Here's one I already have a writeup for Quazi, I think there may be a better, or at least different, way to achieve what you were going for. Keep in mind this is just quick 'n dirty. I took your original image and did the following: 1. add duplicate layer on top 2. to original layer, add hue/saturation, exposure, and brightness/contrast adjustment layers 3. to duplicate layer, add a layer mask to block off the bottom of the image And you're done. In mine the sky is a little lighter, however you could add in an adjustment layer to the top layer to darken it or add contrast if that's what you wanted. (edit: actually, changing the top layer to "multiply" makes the sky pop nicely, though I didn't do that here.) 
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You guys need to just have sex and be done with it.
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Jan 14, 2009 22:12
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quazi, beautiful image and thanks for the writeup.
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Jan 15, 2009 19:02
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ferdinand posted:Helpful things you probs know but others might not: Thanks, ferdinand. I'd certainly be interested in reading more about your techniques. Some other very useful shortcuts that I use when zoomed in (mostly for illustration though): b - switch to the brush e - switch to eraser h - switch to the hand I suggest finding out what the keyboard shortcuts are for the tools you use the most. It can REALLY speed up your processes.
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Jan 18, 2009 01:37
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KennyG posted:It's debatable of "faster" versus slower... but Hardware for hardware it's about equal. Throw in the fact that you are paying a significant mactax for apple, it's not faster. Maybe true, but then he's got to use craptastic Vista on it. There's more to a computer than its speed. I have to use that lovely OS at work, but there's no way in hell I'm going to use it when I get home. The "apple tax" is worth it at twice the price IMO.
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Mar 3, 2009 21:46
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Cythrelo posted:With Vista, it's extremely easy. I've used Vista with both ATI and nVidia cards, and setting up multiple displays is as simple as plugging them in and setting it to extend your desktop across both displays. Not only that, but unless there's an issue with it that I don't know about, color management works just fine with multiple monitors. I use Vista at work on a fairly new (6 months or so) Dell Latitude 630 and it's a piece of poo poo, including multiple monitors. It crashes at least once a day, has all sorts of driver problems, and when I undock the laptop from an external monitor, the OS forgets where my desktop icons are and what my calibrations settings are. When I redock it, Vista forgets where the laptop monitor should be in relation to the external monitor and what my calibration settings should be and again strews my icons all over the desktop. My Macbook never does anything of the sort when plugging/unplugging from an external monitor.
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Mar 4, 2009 05:46
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Cythrelo posted:While I do use two identical monitors, I've never had a problem using different colour profiles for each. It all works exactly like it should for me. I'm using custom profiles from a Spyder calibrator. But you guys are right, this isn't SHSC. Cythrelo said it well. A Vista machine is cheaper. If you don't mind Vista, go for it. A Mac is more expensive. If you see the value in that, spend the money.
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Mar 4, 2009 14:30
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By the way, I think I read that Lightroom has an update out now (in general release, not release candidate) to stop memory leaks, among other things. edit: Yep, 2.3 available now.
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porcellus posted:Does post-proc include organization? I'm having a hard time understanding the mentality to organizing, naming, trimming, exporting, folder locations, etc etc. that's key to not moving like a turtle when I'm editing photos. Absolutely, file management is part of post-processing. You can get a Lightroom plugin to directly export your photos to Flickr. That'll save you a couple of steps. You don't have to export any JPGs anywhere to do it. Keep your files in RAW and let the plugin do the work. Also, I recommend you change your naming convention to year-month-day (eg 20090307 or 2009-03-07). It'll help you later, as you can sort them by name and they'll automatically be sorted by date too. You won't have to be in LR or any other program to quickly find what you want. Lightroom can automatically rename everything to this convention if you tell it to.
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