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Various experiments while I'm learning Photoshop, and there are more efforts on Page 2. Now I'll need to redo old travel pics that are washed out due to bad monitor settings while processing photos. UFFIZI Museum pics: At first, I wanted to show friends how the Uffizi Gallery in Florence presents these famous paintings (choice of framing, glass you have to look through!) -- but the glaring reflections, after I noticed them, were a no-go. So below are the two pics I took there - their Before/After versions. I used pictures from my books to see what was under those reflections and lighter areas and then, by trial and error, found out what color changes are needed to match the unreflected colors. They're both distorted because I shot from an angle and from the waist (under duress) but it's my personal museum experience rather than someone's perfect post card pic or poster :-) I've put the modified versions, plus insets with ultra-degraded detail from iso400 shots, in the Florence2 gallery. VATICAN photos: For the pictures of the famous Pieta at St. Peter's, I needed to do something about the huge distracting glass-window reflection at the top-left. The famous sculpture is protected behind bullet-proof plexiglass now, after a madman attacked it with a hammer in 1972. We're allowed to shoot even flash photos of the Pieta in St. Peter's, though I recently read that the Sistine Chapel area is fairly strict re any photographs because the Japanese group who paid for the 7-yr restoration owns rights to the ceiling paintings. They are much more strict with people going in with large DSLRs and zoom lenses though, tossing them out.
=================================================================== Adobe offers them for $99 only if you buy the $500-$600 Photoshop package too, so this is a good price. For those interested or who already HAVE Lightroom 4, here's a great series of FREE online Lightroom 4 video tutorials by Adobe and they have similar free video tutorials for other Adobe packages. These are really well done. ALSO of interest for Lightroom users will be two free online video guides by Michael Frye -- the first one explains the changes and how the new processes work and affect an image's appearance. The second video shows examples of processing both high and low-contrast images and discusses good settings to start with and whether the improved Basic sliders can replace using curves.
If you prefer a book-type guide to Lightroom 4, the Kindle Version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers is $19.80 currently (May 2013), 64% lower than the Print List Price of $55, Amazon says, but it's 55% off the Digital List Price of $44. I did buy it as it has a good rep. And that's an unusually low price for an Adobe 'Complete guide.'
. Adobe Press CS/CSx articles, including How Layers Work . Improvising with Layers - a basic tutorial by Sharon Steuer. Also, Photoshop 7's brushes pallette and Using brush shapes and textures . Making fine prints digitally . Digital photos primer
. HISTOGRAMS: Here's a beautiful piece on histograms in general, from the luminous-landscape site.
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. Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills - by Mark Galer and Philip Andrews. I just got this as a very clear |
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