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Critique By:
Mark Baker (K:24)
1/30/2007 9:05:47 AM
Thanks for the the kind comments LeAnne. While this photograph is nothing special, it is probably one of my favourites due to the contrasting colours and simplicity
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Mark Baker (K:24)
1/30/2007 9:04:15 AM
Thanks Maram.
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Critique By:
Mark Baker (K:24)
1/28/2007 12:11:46 PM
Thanks Liz
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Critique By:
Mark Baker (K:24)
1/25/2007 7:31:17 AM
Cathy.
I have completed the tutorial and uploaded it to my Photography site. You can view it at:
http://www.photography.emlbaker.com
Please let me know how you go with it and if you have nay trouble, feel free to email me on the address at located on the site.
Regards,
Mark B
www.photography.emlbaker.com
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Critique By:
Mark Baker (K:24)
1/25/2007 3:25:40 AM
This is getting lengthy and due to having to cut it up into posts, I will re-do the image and take screenshots for you and compile a simple step by step tutorial. I have my own website and will upload it there. My other work can be found at my Australian Digital Photo of the Day Gallery. www.potd.com.au/gallery/emlbaker Feel free to visit my gallery and contact me via email. Once you have contacted me I will complete the tutorial (no more than a couple of hours work, no probs) and upload it and give you the address.
I am sorry for the initial post but after reading over it and trying to follow it I realised that if someone had not done something like this before then it would not be any sense.
Happy to help out Let me know if you want the tutorial.
Mark
mark (*at*) emlbaker.com
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Critique By:
Mark Baker (K:24)
1/25/2007 3:12:00 AM
Thanks for you comments Cathy. I am always happy to share hints etc with others.
I took the photograph on the angle you see in the final product which saved me having to rotate/crop it in the processing stages. First thing I did in Photoshop was to enhance the colours as you see them. I used the Velvia effect which was done as follows:
Duplicate your background layer so that you have something to compare and it helps you if you make a mistake. You can then delete that layer and go back.
To produce the Vevlia effect I did the following. Select Image>Adjustments>Channel Mixer. This will open the channel mixer dialogue which allows you to change individual colour saturation. Initially the Red Output channel is selected so you want to change the Source Channels as follows: Red 140, Green -20, Blue -20. Then change the Output channel to Green and do the same except Green will have the 140 value and the other two will be -20. Do the same for the Blue Output channel and you will see your colour enhanced. If you feel that your colour saturation is too dramatic, try using a lower level, perhaps 120. If you use 120 then you only need the others to be -10 each. The total on each Output channel must equal 100.
The next thing I did was to create the white background layer. This was just done by creating a new plain white layer and adjusting the canvas size to something large enough so that it would house the image layer when I rotated it to its final angle. Be sure to turn off the view of your image while doing the adjustments to the canvas size. Also make sure that the colour selection in the adjust canvas size is white. This may take some adjustment to get the right size. Just create the layer and rotate you image layer and see if it fits. If not just enlarge the canvas in increments until you get the size you are after.
When you find the size you need, place the back ground layer below your image layer and turn both layers on. Select the layer containing the image. Use the marquee tool to drag around the outline of your image. When it has selected your image press Ctrl+Shift+I. This will invert the selection and select the white section around your image. Press Delete and then Ctrl D. If you turn off the white background layer your should see a transparent area around your image.
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