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Subject: Re: [OM] Pictures!
From: Frank <wijsmuller@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:42:39 +0100
Thanks for your efforts and critical review of my picture (which was indeed
a very quick and dirty thingy).

I'll look into it, although I don't have Noise Ninja or Focus Magic.

I might start with a better attempt of my first picture.

Thanks again!

2016-02-10 7:23 GMT+01:00 Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>:

> On 2/8/2016 1:57 PM, Frank wrote:
>
>> Well, you did a nice 3d pop, then ;-)
>>
>
> Thanks!
>
> I haven't done it very much but recently posted this one: <
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/fmw/24513954979>.
>>
>
> Wow, could you have chosen a tougher image to work on? I wouldn't have
> touched that, myself. The bare trees should be more in focus than the
> buildings behind them. I'd only do that masking for a 5 figure commission.
>
> Looks like you brushed the effect in. There's a halo on our right side of
> the shoulder and neck; the blur doesn't quite get there, either. And the
> plinth is blurred.
>
> Slowly getting rid of an innervoice telling me I'm cheating....
>>
>
> A simple personnel matter; fire the inner critic. :-)
>
> Please share some of your techniques to create a nice 3d pop?
>>
>
> I do have to say that that's not what I would say I'm doing. My intent is
> to show the subject at its best, and minimize competition for the eyes'
> attention from background. If that makes it seem 3D, that's OK with me.
>
> I can't imagine doing this in anything without layers and layer masks;
> this is PS. <cid:part1.07030507.08010208@gmail.com>
>
> Note, these are small daffodils, one inch-ish in diameter.
>
> 1. As it came out of ACR by default.
>
> 2. A pretty standard first step for me, NeatImage NR and Focus Magic
> deconvolution "sharpening". It takes a sharp eye to see the difference,
> esp. at this size, but it's important to support later steps.
>
> (Note the last frame. This is an illustration of the mask I created. You
> never see it this way in use, except as a tiny thumbnail in the Levels box.
> It is used one way and another for almost all later work.)
>
> 3. Using the reverse of this mask on a copy of the prior level, I made the
> background 'quieter'.
>
> 4. Blurring the background is slightly tricky. On a copy of the last
> layer, I first load the mask as a selection, then delete the white area
> from the image layer. I then invert the mask (CTRL/Shift/I) and blur,
> Filter=>Blur=>Gaussian Blur. Heavier than one wants is better than less, as
> the effect may be lightened with the layer opacity slider. Then apply the
> selection as a mask.
>
> If one simply blurs the whole image, with a layer of sharp main subject
> over it, the blurring of the subject creates a fuzzy halo around it. By
> deleting the subject on that layer, then only applying blur to the other
> part, that is avoided.
>
> 5. LCE (USM, amount = 20, Radius = 50, Threshold = 0)
>
> 6. Curves
>
> 7. Slightly different Curves for the flowers only, to emphasize tonal
> graduations. (I actually used selection to create two masks, flower and
> foliage, then combined them for most layers.)
>
> 8. Mostly Focus Magic, Radius 1, Opacity 80, with a little Radius 2,
> Opacity 100 brushed in lightly in a few places.
>
>
> Does that answer your question?
>
> Nuanced Masked Moose
>
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> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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