Comments on: “Painting” with Painter Essentials 3, and Photoshop http://regex.info/blog/2007-09-01/560 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Tue, 22 May 2012 20:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Bob Johnston http://regex.info/blog/2007-09-01/560#comment-19096 Bob Johnston Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:07:12 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-09-01/560#comment-19096 Don't know when you wrote this, but the company that produces prints on Zenfolio does print on canvas boards or stretched..... Another point that I have not tried, you might make a "virtual copy" of a print in lightroom from RAW, and make the adjustments to each. Bringing out shadow detail in one, and highlight in the other. Much of the detail exists in RAW, and even in photoshop you can bring it out. 1. Use the magic wand to capture highlight detail, go to layer, levels and adjust. If too far out, you can click menu icon at top, and adjust individual colors. Like if a sky is burned out, dragging the bottom right icon in RED, reduces it to show more details in the clouds. Then adjust GREEN AND BLUE. 2. Do the same to capture shadows, and adjust. 3. You can also play with the mid-range to make things look more balanced. You do not need a tripod this way, and it seems so much simpler. You can do anything in Photoshop that we used to do decades ago in a Darkroom, and much more. It is also faster. Think of Photoshop as a modern Darkroom, instead of a computer program..... Play around with Photoshop, there are so many things you can do with it, that few ever try, many never use a majority of the features in the version they have. It is like having a Nikon D200, then only using it on automatic. Don’t know when you wrote this, but the company that produces prints on Zenfolio does print on canvas boards or stretched…..

Another point that I have not tried, you might make a “virtual copy” of a print in lightroom from RAW, and make the adjustments to each. Bringing out shadow detail in one, and highlight in the other.

Much of the detail exists in RAW, and even in photoshop you can bring it out.
1. Use the magic wand to capture highlight detail, go to layer, levels and adjust.
If too far out, you can click menu icon at top, and adjust individual colors.
Like if a sky is burned out, dragging the bottom right icon in RED, reduces
it to show more details in the clouds. Then adjust GREEN AND BLUE.

2. Do the same to capture shadows, and adjust.

3. You can also play with the mid-range to make things look more balanced.

You do not need a tripod this way, and it seems so much simpler. You can do anything in Photoshop that we used to do decades ago in a Darkroom, and much more. It is also faster.
Think of Photoshop as a modern Darkroom, instead of a computer program…..

Play around with Photoshop, there are so many things you can do with it, that few ever try, many never use a majority of the features in the version they have. It is like having a Nikon D200, then only using it on automatic.

]]> By: William http://regex.info/blog/2007-09-01/560#comment-8756 William Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:30:50 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-09-01/560#comment-8756 Back in the day when I was working deeply with Photoshop, there were a few plugins available (pity they weren't portably written to survive Photoshop version changes) that did wonders like creating abstract-like paintings from any image and such (and a suitably fast 80846 to reduce the wait times once the plugin was applied). Regarding Corel, that's indeed pretty sad, but not surprising :-( They're rumoured to be a pretty mean company. Back in the day when I was working deeply with Photoshop, there were a few plugins available (pity they weren’t portably written to survive Photoshop version changes) that did wonders like creating abstract-like paintings from any image and such (and a suitably fast 80846 to reduce the wait times once the plugin was applied).

Regarding Corel, that’s indeed pretty sad, but not surprising :-( They’re rumoured to be a pretty mean company.

]]> By: Jon http://regex.info/blog/2007-09-01/560#comment-8585 Jon Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:05:55 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-09-01/560#comment-8585 There is also a process that prints on actual canvas at very high quality. I think IRIS is the name. Jon There is also a process that prints on actual canvas at very high quality. I think IRIS is the name.

Jon

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