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This image was corrected using the same procedure as in Example 2. Again we leverage our own knowledge of the world to distinguish what matters in the image, what should be white and black, and what objects should be gray. The result is like lifting a veil from the image. Although you may simply read this tutorial, your time will be better spent if you copy the original image to your hard drive, and follow the example in Photoshop. This goes for all of the examples. |
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1 As before, save the example to your hard drive, open it in Photoshop, start Curvemeister, start the wizard, and set your working color space to Lab. If you would like to see this again, check out the earlier Bath-England example |
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2 Click the Next button to reveal the wizard screen entitled Set the Shadow. Pick an important dark area, click on it, and fine tune the shadow. Do the same for the highlight. |
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3 Now advance to the Set Neutrals screen, find something that is medium gray, and click on it. |
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4 Click Next to bring up the wizard's overall brightness window. Keeping the honey colored Bath Stone in mind, adjust the brightness slider. Do not click the "Next" button, since we will now be selecting different color spaces. |
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5 Stay in the same Wizard window. Click the various color spaces. For this example, the wizard gives very similar results for RGB, wgCMYK, and Lab. I used Lab for the After section of the image at the top of this page. HSB is the least satisfactory, once again, because the wizard is not "bolted" to either the Hue or Saturation curve. This is not always the case, and in a later example we will use curves directly, and make better use of HSB's capabilities.
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In this version, everyone is a winner, that is, except for poor HSB. Its saturation and hue channels are not bolted into the Color Wizard. |
