Topic: another easy image

[gremurphoto]

a horse,of course.GregM

[pkelly2]

Interestingly, the Wizard didn't help on this photo.
I had no idea what color the barn wall was, but was fairly confident that the grass should be green.
Serendipitously, I discovered the description of "Lab and the Greens of Nature" on pages 47-49 of the book "Photoshop Lab Color" by Dan Margulis.
An ACV file with the suggested tweaks of LAB, even though I did not follow all of the theory, did most of the job in one click.  To that I then increased brightness and contrast and slightly sharpened the focus to bring out the features in the horse's face.

[Greg Groess]

a horse,of course.GregM

Of Course Of Course....

[Greg Groess]

Interestingly, the Wizard didn't help on this photo.
I had no idea what color the barn wall was, but was fairly confident that the grass should be green.
Serendipitously, I discovered the description of "Lab and the Greens of Nature" on pages 47-49 of the book "Photoshop Lab Color" by Dan Margulis.
An ACV file with the suggested tweaks of LAB, even though I did not follow all of the theory, did most of the job in one click.  To that I then increased brightness and contrast and slightly sharpened the focus to bring out the features in the horse's face.

Nicely done...but a bit cold...Try setting a neutral on one of the White surfaces.  Yes, White can be used as a neutral as long as it is a reasonable white like the gutter.  The grass looks better and the tonality of the image improves greatly.  The rest is really spot on as the Brits might say....
Greg

[themightyzog]

Now that Greg (G and M) is very interesting - feeling that my little grey cells are getting past it and I need a refreshed, I decided to curve in rgb because I noticed that the guttering was a different colour along it's length and also the down pipe (and you can only set one neutral in Lab [forgetting about Jacob's Ladder]).

So I set multiple neutrals and clocks next to them - the variation is quite alarming.

Don't we have fun!

[gremurphoto]

What I wanted to do was bring out the bars in the window and keep the insulators on the fence white.First I used the shad/light in PSE to accomplish this.Then in CM Lab I did a highlight threshold on the downspout extender.For the neutral I zoomed the image several times and found a spot the fence that read about -0,1.Treated  wood has green moss and much magenta(oxidized chemical?) messing up your readings.Then a nudge to the saturation slider.In a second pass I cut back the green of the vegatation a bit ,it was an overcast day.I'm also posting a darker version of this image that I think is truer to the instant the shutter was clicked.GregM

[Greg Groess]

Now that Greg (G and M) is very interesting - feeling that my little grey cells are getting past it and I need a refreshed, I decided to curve in rgb because I noticed that the guttering was a different colour along it's length and also the down pipe (and you can only set one neutral in Lab [forgetting about Jacob's Ladder]).

So I set multiple neutrals and clocks next to them - the variation is quite alarming.

Don't we have fun!

So which neutral is making the fence look too red??  What an interesting exercise. Zog Try a straight By the Numbers correction using 1 highlight and 1 shadow as well as a suspected neutral.  That's my next move... 

[joann]

Here's my version. Since I don't know what I'm doing I used the wizard. I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I'm sure it could be better.
JoAnn H

[gremurphoto]

Julie,I think you got the color and detail just right for the horse's face and the grass.GregM,the unofficial one

[joann]

Do you mean JoAnn?

[gremurphoto]

Er,yes.GJM

[julie]

Dear Greg

these easy images are taking a large slice of my day. I used the wizard on this and then levels and sharpening. I tried to increase saturation but it looked very weird. I used the upper part of the shed for neutral as it seemed to improve the colour of the grass. I wonder if that part was not painted?

Julie

[julie]

Dear  greg

just had another look and added some contrast. I think it improves things

Julie

[Greg Groess]

Easy is a matter of opinion...

Fear not the class is far more structured.
There are examples that help you get through along with written and video materials.

The members are putting forth images that will challenge the best, mostly they are to show you that you can do amazing things with CM and a bit of patience and imagination.

If these were easy you would not need the class...I'm just glad that you have given them a very good try...Hang in there...

Greg

[curvemeister]

Wow - this image really got a big response.