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..: Imaging and Photoshop Tips for Brokies! :..
LauraGigs:
--- Quote ---How do I make the BLUR Tool work. I can change brush size, change it into a finger, etc. but it has absolutely NO EFFECT on the pic?
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What are your options set at for the blur tool? There should be a setting called "strength". I always have it set at 100%. (If it still has no effect, make sure you're using it on the proper layer.)
If you change the icon to a finger, it becomes the smudge tool — not what you want. Go into Preferences and make sure "Show Tool Tips" is checked.
--- Quote ---But talk to me about Lossy Jpegs. Only can use this prog with REALLY good quality pics because they save at about half of their original size.
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Patrick, like I emphasized before, jpeg is great for emailing & posting on the web, but you lose quality. If you're going to do all this work, it's worth it to have a backup copy saved as PSD or TIF in case you ever want to print it.
(If I only had $1 for every time I had to tell folks that no, that gorgeous RGB 72 dpi jpeg will not print well!!)
LauraGigs:
=aside= Thanks Geri! Coffeecat, good to see ya!
Br. Patrick:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on November 10, 2006, 01:07:04 pm ---What are your options set at for the blur tool? There should be a setting called "strength". I always have it set at 100%. (If it still has no effect, make sure you're using it on the proper layer.)
If you change the icon to a finger, it becomes the smudge tool — not what you want. Go into Preferences and make sure "Show Tool Tips" is checked.
Patrick, like I emphasized before, jpeg is great for emailing & posting on the web, but you lose quality. If you're going to do all this work, it's worth it to have a backup copy saved as PSD or TIF in case you ever want to print it.
(If I only had $1 for every time I had to tell folks that no, that gorgeous RGB 72 dpi jpeg will not print well!!)
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Thanks! This prg has SO much capability that it's learning curve is STEEP! And I have been using it for about 5 years, once or twice a month. The setting for the blur tool is called "Pressure" and it was 50% and the drop down box choice was set to "Color." When I made it 100%, like you said, and changed the drop down box to say "Normal" - BEHOLD! I now have a blur tool and undestand the settings. Tool tips are on like you suggested. The only thing that I DON'T use Photoshop for is PRINTING. I have a REAL HARD TIME getting the margins set AND the COLOR to look like it does on screen. So, for all of my printing, I use a prg that came with my WIN95 computer. Microsoft Picture It 2.0. It does things really well like removing scratches from old photos and it's manipulation of layers is much more intuititive than Photoshop. The worst part of it is it complains about saving in anything other than it's native file type. But what I always use it for is PRINTING. Because it will print whatever you send it perfectly centered in perfect color - this is the third machine I've used it with. So, in Photoshop, I usually save as .jpgs with a quality of 10 and a 3 progressive scans. I ONLY do this if I am absolutely SURE that I won't need anything better. But MS has BOUGHT (they don't do it themselves) some really good image enhancement / enlargement subroutines or libraries because the results are simply stunning. My new computer has MEDIA CENTER 2005 and I have a 20" widescreen monitor. It's slideshows with tiny oversaved .jpgs as bad as you showed above blows me away! Plus, it gives you two levels of ZOOM to enlarge even bigger! Everything is Full Screen and looks Great. I often enlarge pictures this way and Ctrl-PrtScr them into Photoshop. Then whatever the original size was, I have a beautiful 1680 x 1050 pixel enlargement to do whatever I want to; mainly color correct, levels, curves, etc.
Sorry to go on and on. REALLLLLLY thanks for your help. You have taught me more about Photoshop than I could have hoped for. I hope you plan on sticking around!!!!
LauraGigs:
--- Quote ---I have thousands of images and in about 75% of the old ones, fleshtones are yellow instead of pink. Now, I can change that but it changes the entire image to a degree that makes it look unreal. So, my question would be, is there a way to CHOOSE the color that one wishes to modify and then modify ONLY that color?
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I recommend either the Selective Color or the Hue/Saturation tool. Go under Image —> Adjust —> and choose one or the other.
Selective Color is pretty self-explanatory: Choose a color in the top field, then add (or subtract) desired amounts of any of the 4 colors shown until the preview looks like you want. ("Relative" is more natural-looking; "Absolute" is more precise.)
Hue/Saturation: The dialog box will have several fields: Edit (a drop-down menu with a choice of color channels), Hue (literally, what color something is), Saturation (how vivid or subdued it is, like the "Color" setting on your TV), and Lightness (Don't use this too much; it will "grey out" your shadows).
Under Edit, choose "Yellows". (To see whether you and Photoshop agree on which pixels are yellow, grab the Saturation bar and drag it way to the right — those pixels should brighten way up. Then return that slider to "0".)
Move the Hue slider slightly to the left. It will make the yellows in your image lean a little toward red. If Photoshop thinks the pixels in question are more red, then choose "Reds" under Edit, move the Hue slider to the left, which will make your reds lean toward Magenta.
Both of the above methods will correct only the chosen colors in your image.
Br. Patrick:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on November 16, 2006, 02:55:50 pm ---I recommend either the Selective Color or the Hue/Saturation tool. Go under Image —> Adjust —> and choose one or the other.
Selective Color is pretty self-explanatory: Choose a color in the top field, then add the desired amounts of the 4 colors shown until the preview looks like you want. ("Relative" is more natural-looking; "Absolute" is more precise.)
Hue/Saturation: The dialog box will have several fields: Edit (a drop-down menu with a choice of color channels), Hue (literally, what color something is), Saturation (how vivid or subdued it is, like the "Color" setting on your TV), and Lightness (Don't use this too much; it will "grey out" your shadows).
Under Edit, choose "Yellows". (To see whether you and Photoshop agree on which pixels are yellow, grab the Saturation bar and drag it way to the right — those pixels should brighten way up. Then return that slider to "0".)
Move the Hue slider slightly to the left. It will make the yellows in your image lean a little toward red. If Photoshop thinks the pixels in question are more red, then choose "Reds" under Edit, move the Hue slider to the left, which will make your reds lean toward Magenta.
Both of the above methods will correct only the chosen colors in your image.
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That pretty much says what I a currently doing. I thought that the prg might have had the ability to let me 'point' to an area of consistent color and then adjust ONLY that color. OH WELL. It STILL gives me the most control over what I am seeing than any other program that I have used... And since Brokeback came out, I've been using it a lot. Thanks for moving the personal post HERE where it belongs! FWIW, I use lightness to restore the flesh color UNDERNEATH the yellow after doing the adjustments. Then it's back to Levels.... Thanks a lot for your help!!
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