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Here is one of the vacation shots I am working on from Drumheller Alberta - extremely HOT and sunny day and colours washed out by lighting conditions. Uses the 5 adjustment layers and paint with light.

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John
Super job, John,

How about just a little more detail about "the 5 adjustment layers" ???

Rusty
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Great job, John. I too would like to know the answer to that
Rusty and Suzi,

The five adjustment layers are from Radiant Vista's CS3 Companion and is, unfortunately, CS3 oriented in terms of Curves and Selective Colour.

The resulting Layer stack looks like this:

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and from top to bottom is as follows

Colour Dodge - (Paint with Light) - blend mode Color Dodge, filled with black
Colour Burn - Paint with light - blend mode Color Burn, filled with 11% gray
Hue/Saturation for saturation - blend mode Saturation
Selective Color for color balance - blend mode Normal
Curves for color balance - blend mode Color
Curves for midtone contrast - blend mode Luminosity
Levels for brightest and darkest values - blend mode Luminosity

The turorial for the RV layers can be found here - http://www.radiantvista.com/tutorials/a ... ent-layers

One thing they have changed is the matching of Blend Mode to what I have shown here - it makes sense - if adjusting for lighting, tweak Luminosity only. If for Saturation, tweak Saturation only.

Thw ones I find have the most effect are the Colour Burn and Hue/Saturation - especially when the Hue saturation is targeted to a specific colour by changing the drop down to anything other than master, then clicking in the picture to target a specific colour to tweak.

If anyone wants my modified .atn file, send me a PM and I will be happy to forward it via 4shared.com
John
Really nice result on your photo. Really makes a difference.
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Thanks for detail. I can get some of that in Elements :biggrin:

Rusty
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Rusty, with the addition of a Curves plug-in (like http://free.pages.at/easyfilter/curves.html) I think Elements will have all that. (The PSE6 Color Curves might do it just as well). Color Variations are on the Adjust Color menu, and you just make your alterations to a duplicate layer and adjust blend mode accordingly.
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Thanks, Geoff,

I'm using PSE5 and will use "color variations" when I see the need. I never thought of doing that on a duplicate layer so blend modes can be adjusted.

I have Graffi's curves; haven't used them much. I should practice. :D

Rusty
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If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough. - Robert Capa

www.prestophoto.com/photos/gallery/19932
What a huge difference. It looks great.
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