Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Hey, I like that. How'd you do it? I already applied LCE, and
> desaturated the whites while upping the reds to get that chairback to
> stand out a little. (Though I think bringing up the snowflakes grays
> out the siding a little, at least on my monitor. But still . . .)
I agree, there is no way to make the flakes stand out against the
background without making the siding a little gray. I put the revision
in a separate layer and moved the opacity slider back and forth a lot to
decide on that balance of gray siding to snow.
Mostly what I did to differentiate flakes from background was to stretch
out the tonal range in the very top of the histogram using curves. I
think I diddled with some other stuff, but that's the main thing for the
snow.
Your praise and your comment about the chair back led me in deeper. ;-)
I've put another layer on that uses Shadow/Highlight on just the dark
windows. Really perks the image as a whole up, but changes the focus off
the snow flakes and toward the magical, warm, sparkly, Christmasy
seeming interior. I don't know if the white spots are snow flakes, but
they sort of come across more as lights to my eye.
Again, that is a second layer that may be dialed up and down.
> And I like White on White. I think that'll be the winner.
>
Wheeeee...
> Send me your snail address and I'll send you a print for winning the
> Name That Print prize!
>
How very nice of you! It's a wonderful image.
Moose
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