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UTAH 2005 Photoshoot Image Workflow
Using Corel's Paint Shop Pro - new version 10
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The image as shot using
a Canon Rebel Digital SLR. I admit to usually underexposing. For this
shot I bracketed 3 shots and for this example chose the middle result.
All would have been just fine to work with. A histogram adjustment will
take care of the under exposure. |
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Simply cropped. You
can decide if the result is a stronger composition.I think it is. If
the sky had had even more clouds I wouldn't have cropped it. |
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The original histogram obviously shows
that the image was under exposed. |
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Histogram adjusted.
Everything was brightened by moving the right 'arrow' to the left, where
the 'footprint' of the image begins. Don't do the histogram adjustment
before you crop! |
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The shadow area was brightened using the Adjust/High/Mid/Shadow tool*.
This is a newer feature to compete with Photoshop's Shadow/Highlight
tool. It's a welcome addition!
* Reworked from v.9. |
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A bit of Saturation was
added. We're so used to seeing these red rocks saturated that I had to
do it also. The light was so bright, which tends to wash out the colors.
(Another reason for under exposing in the first place.) |
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Before the Clarify adjustment
was added. Version 10 has set the lowest setting too strong for many
photos, but in this case setting #2 worked well. |
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Clarify set at #2
Don't forget to try this out. With it and Saturation, if you say WOW you've gone
too far. |
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Using High Pass Sharpening
instead of Unsharp Mask seems to work more quickly.... and better. High
Pass is a new option in version 10 and I truly do like it better
than unsharp mask. Experiment! |
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Finally
you can use the JPEG Optimizer. I usually use a setting
between 20 - 30 for a file size of not greater than 60KB for images
of this size.
Finished image © Eleanor T. Culling.
Arches National Park
October 2005
Read On...
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My custom workspace using Paint Shop Pro
v.10.
See
this fuller explanation. |
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A question still remains
for me, and it is whether or not to shoot one RAW image of each scene
and use RAWShooter
essentials 2005 to 'process' the image or shoot high quality JPEGs
and bracket for 3 exposures. On this trip I tried both most days.
I immediately
extract the jpgs from the RAW files and use Ulead's
Photo Explorer to
browse through all the images and print out thumbnails of all the shots.
I believe that the next version of Photo Explorer (8.6) will allow me
to browse my RAW files. I'm looking forward to that.
RAWShooter essentials 2005 comes free with PSPX.
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