Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Steve LeHuray wrote: > http://www.streetphoto.net/photo_of_the_week/paw12.html > > and then the improvement: > > http://www.streetphoto.net/images/im10.jpg Steve, I took the liberty of opening that picture in Photoshop. I cropped out the white border (to get rid of white pixels that could bias results) and looked at the histogram. It looks like you're not using the lower range of values, (I don't exactly remember, it was last night at home), lower than about 40 or so (I don't quite remember, it was last night at home.) I was able to improve the image a bit more by just doing an "Auto levels" on the image. As other people have said, try to do these adjustments in 16 bits, and stay away from brighness and contrast. Levels and Curves are usually enough. There are some good Photoshop tutorials on the net, that include cuves. I don't have an URL, but if you do a search in Google for "photoshop curves" or "photoshop tutorials", I'm sure you'll find them. j - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juan J. Buhler | FX Animator @ PDI | http://www.crosswinds.net/~jbuhler - -------------------------------------------------------------------------