safe haven for tiny formats

[Peter De Smidt]

One way for finding more color is Don Marquis' method: Convert the file to LAB. Create an adjustment layer. Make the A and B graphs steeper by moving the lower corner to the right and the upper corner to the left. Do this for both of the A and the B channels to taste. Change the layer's blending mode to 'color'. Adjust the opacity of the layer to taste. Flatten and convert to your RGB working space. Sorry if you already heard of this. What it does is increase the separation between the colors in the image, and it can be very good for intensifying colors in an image.

Here's a screen shot of the first step of Don's method:


Here's another way, the Joseph Holmes method. This will only work if you editing space is one of the middle or smaller color spaces. Suppose the image is in sRGB. Edit>Assign Adobe 1998 to the image. This will intensify colors. Now edit>convert the image back to your working space. Joe had a whole bunch of special spaces for doing this. I usually use Adobe 98 or Ektaspace. If your editing space is Adobe 98 or PRophoto, then you'll need to convert to sRGB for the web. So do that conversion, and then try Joe's method.

[Scott Schroeder]

cathedral gorge, nevada

[Peter De Smidt]

Excellent, Scott!

[Scott Schroeder]

mormon tea in sunlight, nevada

[SergeyT]

... Convert the file to LAB... Change the layer's blending mode to 'color'...

If Lightness channel is kept as-is , non-modified, then changing the layer's blending mode to 'Color' makes no difference compared to "Normal" blending. Likewise if the changes are done only to Lightness channel, then both Normal and Luminosity blending modes have identical effect.

[Peter De Smidt]

That's a good point. I just always do this when I'm adjusting colors with a curves adjustment layer, as I'm not normally in LAB.

[tuco]

I frequently shoot this building trying out different films and/or camera. Now it's the Noblex 135U's turn loaded with 400TX.


UO Training Center by tuco, on Flickr

[Corran]

Just a deer enjoying brunch.
Nikon F5, 200mm f/4 Micro, old Optima 100 dev'd in Rollei C-41 2-bath kit



Love this Optima film!

[tuco]

Nice Bryan. The foliage framing makes it feel like you are sneaking up on the deer.


I have a deer that sleeps in my backyard now and then. I didn't have to work very hard to get this shot.


Armchair Wildlife Photography by tuco, on Flickr

Nikon Df, 70-200mm GII

[Corran]

Nice one. We have them come through the yard fairly often but they are super skittish. A few times we've come home at dusk and there's been half a dozen in the side yard, and they bound into the brush as soon as we park the car.

Speaking of wildlife, this little guy was on the trail later that day, and so I popped my 35mm f/2 onto the F5 and aimed it roughly where he was at ground level, pretty close to him. He was not impressed.