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Hades-shadow — HDR Part 2: The touchups

Published: 2008-11-09 15:41:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 3066; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 157
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Description PLEASE NOTE, THERE IS A MISTAKE IN THE IMAGE. FOLLOWING THE TEXT:

"You may find that after changing color depths, the image appears darker than it was before you adjusted the brightness / contrast. So you can go
back to the brightness/contrast menu and readjust again to your liking"

BUT BEFORE "For this, I'm going to duplicate the initial layer twice. (Ctrl+J) On the top layer (Layer 1 copy)......"

SHOULD READ THE FOLLOWING:

"That's a bit better now!
Sometimes, you may notice on your images that there is either too much sharpness, or too much blur.. Sadly when there is a significant amount of blur
not a great deal can be done to resolve it. However when an image is too sharp [as I feel this landscape is - even though sharpness is usally better for landscapes
I feel this one is a bit too harsh] there are steps to alleviate it somewhat."



Second part. The touchups

First part: [link]

Due to a couple of notes I've had about the previous one:

I'd like to point out this is NOT a "How to make my picture awesomesauce" guide. This IS a tutorial on how to critically evaluate your work (See news article) and use YOUR evaluations to digitally improve your image
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Comments: 13

BlackDelphin [2009-01-03 19:48:31 +0000 UTC]

now THIS is one of the rare cases when i DO like HDR
nice jog!! it's one of my favorite

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Hades-shadow In reply to BlackDelphin [2009-02-02 16:51:37 +0000 UTC]

hehe, thanks I like using HDR only to bring out certain tones, I don't like the new-agey kind of look most go for with it, particularly halo's around objects.

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BlackDelphin In reply to Hades-shadow [2009-02-02 17:43:15 +0000 UTC]

i agree with your tastes

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Hades-shadow In reply to BlackDelphin [2009-02-02 18:44:49 +0000 UTC]

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mindwarp-hs [2008-11-16 12:42:13 +0000 UTC]

Really useful ... that one and the first part too. Thanx for making it

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Hades-shadow In reply to mindwarp-hs [2008-11-17 11:51:53 +0000 UTC]

Thanks and for the fav, you're welcome

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PhotoLust [2008-11-13 20:09:00 +0000 UTC]

This tutorial has been collected in *PhotoLust 's favourites gallery (home of loads of brilliant tutorials) and has also been featured in November's journal . Thanks for making such a great resource!

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Hades-shadow In reply to PhotoLust [2008-11-13 22:16:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much!

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THEHOUSEONTHEHILL [2008-11-10 21:56:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks matey, that's given me my next project to work on tomorrow xx

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Hades-shadow In reply to THEHOUSEONTHEHILL [2008-11-13 17:19:12 +0000 UTC]

Great good luck!

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SoltisViolin [2008-11-09 17:57:32 +0000 UTC]

Totally rocking!

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Hades-shadow In reply to SoltisViolin [2008-11-10 13:38:09 +0000 UTC]

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SoltisViolin In reply to Hades-shadow [2008-11-10 19:59:04 +0000 UTC]

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