Hello, I tried a few shots over the past 2 weekends. The images were great in the small screen on the camera itself but now on the "big" screen it looked liked the images were ordinary. I'm a beginner in photography and still only halfway through the tutorials in CiC.
I've taken this photo in RAW but then re-sized it to allowable jpeg file size. I would like to know how I can get the picture to look "warm" if that makes any sense.
Looking forward to the c & c's.
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16th January 2013, 03:41 AM #1New Member
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16th January 2013, 03:58 AM #2
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Welcome, Monica. looks like you have almost got the posting down. Maybe missing a step as we only got the thumbnail. Anyway, what program are you using for PP? If you have a temperature slider just slide it to where you like. You might try a cloudy white balance if you don't have a temp slider.
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16th January 2013, 04:10 AM #3
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Monica; I am very new to photoshop as well and my first instinct was to put a color overlay on the shot and adjust the opacity and fill. I used something in the orange family to get the following results (I also did a quick auto curves adjustment).
Paul's advice is probably better and easier when you convert from RAW.
This is what I came up with:
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16th January 2013, 04:37 AM #4
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That has worked nicely. I had a quick play as well just using the temp slider. I also gave it a slight sharp which may have been a bit much with such a small file.
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16th January 2013, 04:42 AM #5
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Thanks for showing your edit Paul. Yours retains more of a glow - I wonder if the overlay takes some of that down or the sharpening that you did adds some brightness? So much to learn!
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16th January 2013, 04:45 AM #6
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A little bit of both Shane. In the end it all comes down to personal preference. Before that it is just about how much work you wish to do. I like easy.
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16th January 2013, 04:51 AM #7
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Easy is good but that is a relative term when learning Photoshop - everything seems hard/overwhelming at first
However, I will say that reading these forums, seeing the examples and doing a bit of research on what terms mean and how to apply them to your images is a huge help!
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17th January 2013, 05:40 AM #8New Member
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Wow, amazing!
Thank you Shane and Paul for taking the time to tweak the photo. It does appear warmer in both images. One thing I noticed that both pictures were able to bring out the spots of sunlight on the grass appear brighter. It did not register to me before but after tweaking the photo the patches of sunlight bring something more to the image.
I haven't decided yet what program to use - there are many of them out there. I'll practice some more with this image and see how far I can get to as close as what you guys have done.
I'll probably post another image in a week or two.
Thank you very much.
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