{"id":3014,"date":"2011-12-14T23:37:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2013-07-02T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:21:43","slug":"changing-your-mode-of-thinking-about-color-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3014","title":{"rendered":"Changing your mode of thinking…about color, that is"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/center>The photo on the left is one I took a little while ago on the tracks for the Fort Lincoln Trolley. This year’s flooding has once again washed out the tracks in spectacular fashion. I didn’t really like the way I left the color last time, so I decided to use one of my favorite color correction techniques: working in the Lab color space<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>By working in a different color space and applying curve adjustments to various channels, one can quickly and easily perform color manipulation and\/or correction to areas of a photo without having to try to mask out certain areas. For instance, those dead trees would be a nightmare to “cut out” if I wanted to just adjust the sky around them.<\/p>\n

By switching to Lab color I can adjust the various color balances smoothly using splined curves rather than having to mask areas of adjustment. That also allowed me to “push” the sky to more of a blue-violet while bringing out the reds and browns of the grass and rusted rails. Not only that: it’s fast and easy. The photo adjustment above took only one step and about thirty seconds.<\/p>\n

I was inspired to share something Photoshop-related here and on our photo club website at www.bismanphoto.com<\/a> after I got a surprise email tonight…I won third place in a contest that I’d forgotten that I’d entered and am going to receive some nice Adobe swag in the mail soon. Photoshop: the gift that keeps on giving!<\/p>\n

By the way, if you like photography you need to join www.BisManPhoto.com.<\/a> It doesn’t matter whether you are just starting or are a professional, or if you’re taking photos on a phone instead of an expensive camera. Everybody’s welcome, and we always have a blast. Tell ’em I sent ya!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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