Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/05/29

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: The Winning Card
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 16:10:34 -0500
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On May 29, 2014, at 4:03 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> I know what you mean; however, go to any of the top stock agencies and do a
> search.  For example, here is Alamy's category Travel.  They rank the
> photos and put the best sellers first:
> 
> http://www.alamy.com/categories/Travel
> 
> It's all about saturation - super, super saturation.  So much that it
> almost hurts my eyes.  If I don't boost the saturation on mine before I
> submit them, they get lost 500 pages back!

we're not communicating well.
I'm not suggesting muting the color.
I'm suggesting getting the color "correct"
with skin tones that often means:
upping the "vibrance"
while
lowering the "saturation"
(perhaps selectively to particular colors)

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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In reply to: Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMG: The Winning Card)
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Message from george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] IMG: The Winning Card)
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