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I took this picture and didn't realize until too late that there is a very distracting dark icicle in the foreground, blocking the front part of the ring of light. Is this something that is possible to remove in photoshop, and if so what tool and process would you use to do so? I only have lightroom2 and the clone and heal tools aren't cutting it. I can get photoshop at a good price (student) and am really considering it now that I am consistently running into limitations of lightroom. 
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Splinter posted:Yet Adobe still added profiles based on the in camera modes of the camera. I wonder why? The profiles are alright but they don't do much for realistic skin tones, at least on the nikon side of things. The only one I've ever bothered using is d2x mode 1.
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Loinworm posted:I was just about to add that I don't think a single one of these champions of industry has ever actually made a traditional color print in their lives. You can easily spend days going through hundreds of dollars worth of chemistry trying to get the result you thought you should have had when you clicked that shutter release. Whining about five seconds worth of knob twiddling with immediate, non-temperature dependent feedback is just flat out stupid. Well to be fair, an inaccurate lcd display on the back of the camera really can screw you when you thought you had the correct exposure, and it turns out it is underexposed, or your flash isn't set right when you look at it on a computer. It would be nice if you could set the lcd display to show a more true representation of the raw image. Now for a completely unrelated question: I just picked up photoshop cs4 and I am having trouble figuring something out. I have a folder of 7 images I want to make in to a panorama. Is there a way to open them all as layers in photoshop in one go? If I try opening them it opens them as 7 seperate files, instead of one file with 7 layers. In lightroom I can right click and open all as layers in photoshop, but that doesn't help when I am trying to export the files as smaller jpgs out of lightroom, then open up those jpgs, not the original raws, in photoshop. When I tried searching photoshop help and google it came up with a whole bunch of layer masking tutorials. Anyone have an idea? Similarly is there any way to open just one image as a layer in a composition you are already working on? snowman fucked around with this message at 00:13 on May 2, 2009 |
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May 2, 2009 00:06
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I'm having trouble post processing this image. It just feels kind of flat to me, no matter what I do to it. That is with a curve already applied and a few exposures blended. I'm starting to think maybe it's just a boring photo. Anyone got an idea?
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Jul 7, 2009 00:26
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Yeah that is pretty unlikely, and most definitely sucks, but I've noticed a much more common situation where lightroom is a disadvantage. On my d90 any picture above iso 800 looks like poo poo when I get it into lightroom. The original pictures look great, the camera actually has a pretty good high iso noise reduction built in, but lightroom doesn't get that info, so you have to use the luminance noise reduction slider in light room, which looks like total rear end compared to what comes out of the camera. If I used nikon's software the images would look great, but because of proprietary raw formats I get shafted. One thing I'm not sure about, does long exposure noise reduction work the same way? This is where the camera takes a dark frame of the same exposure length to reduce noise in long exposure images. But I'd assume since the other noise reduction isn't applied when using lightroom/camera raw, that this is the same scenario. It's really a bummer. I couldn't give a poo poo about the different camera profiles like camera standard, vivid, acr etc, but the noise reduction is a pretty big deal if you are shooting in low light.
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Dec 15, 2009 23:40
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I use a wacom intuos 3 and it's the only thing I use when in photoshop. But for lightroom I think it sucks. The sliders are what really kills it, not only are sliders something that for me is easier to operate with a mouse, when I'm using the tablet for some reason they have more lag. That and with lightroom's setup I just find a mouse easier to use for the most part.
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Gazmachine posted:
One other thing you could try is hitting Alt+ctrl+shift+E , which should merge everything visible onto a new layer while leaving your other layers intact below it. You then delete the other layers and save for web or save as to get your jpg. Don't ever delete the original with all layers unless you are sure you'll never use it again and don't have the hard drive space. I agree with Kazy on save for web, it works great, and may work by itself without the merging step I talked about. A quick tip for you, it looks like you are making your changes to a specific area by erasing that part of the layer. Look up some tutorials on layer masks. It is a much less destructive way of working; it makes it very easy to go back and change the area you want to adjust.
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