http://youtu.be/L3Wm9OKbgnw
In todays show I cover the curves tool. With curves you can change the brightness and contrast of an image in a lot of ways. Either fine tune the shadows, midtones and highlights or do something very strange.
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Every digital image needs sharpening. But sharpening increases the noise in the image. In this episode I show a way to sharpen only the areas that need to be sharpened — the edges between different colours or levels of brightness. All the other parts of the image are left alone and so the noise stays down.
Sharpening should always be the very last thing you do with your image.
Chris Marquard explained sharpening in Photoshop Corner No. 4 in his Tips from the Top Floor podcast.
I got the described method from the Gimp tutorial page.
Wikipedia describes the underlying process in this article about the unsharp mask. The links at the bottom of the page are very informative.
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In this episode I’ll finish the editing of the image that kept me busy in the last shows. There was a lot to do — darkening the ship with a selective layer mask, cloning out some driftwood and half a bird, correcting the aspect ratio to something the printer will be happy with and giving him a hint how to print the image with a gray and colour gradient.
Before I really send the image to the printer I’ll make the birds in the top left corner a bit darker — but you know how to do that.
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