Comments on: Fix It For Me Friday http://lifesignatures.org/wordpress/2009/07/fix-it-for-me-friday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fix-it-for-me-friday It's about life, photography, food, and family. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:13:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Puna http://lifesignatures.org/wordpress/2009/07/fix-it-for-me-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-2233 Puna Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:15:51 +0000 http://lifesignatures.org/wordpress/?p=6591#comment-2233 Wow Marshall, thank you so much! I think the black and white looks great. I knew that it couldn't be returned to the great color of the Florida coastline but this looks really good. I'm going to try to recreate the one you did for us. I'm going out on a limb here but if I can't do it, can I send you the high res and you can do it for me? It's okay if you say no. I understand. I want to put it in our bedroom which is, of course, black and white. Wow Marshall, thank you so much! I think the black and white looks great. I knew that it couldn’t be returned to the great color of the Florida coastline but this looks really good. I’m going to try to recreate the one you did for us. I’m going out on a limb here but if I can’t do it, can I send you the high res and you can do it for me? It’s okay if you say no. I understand. I want to put it in our bedroom which is, of course, black and white.

]]> By: Marshall http://lifesignatures.org/wordpress/2009/07/fix-it-for-me-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-2232 Marshall Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:10:23 +0000 http://lifesignatures.org/wordpress/?p=6591#comment-2232 Hey, it's Marshall from I Heart Faces. First of all, very cool blog. I'm really diggin' it. And you like JPG Magazine! High five! Ok, the picture. I agree with the previous commenter about the white balance being the issue. This looks like tungsten white balance which tells the camera to expect a very bluish light and compensate for it. In the absence of a RAW file, you kinda have to work with what you've got. Your processing of the image made it look as thought the toning was intentional, which is very good. It still seems a bit lacking in contrast, meaning there's not enough dark blacks and light whites. My thought would be to just toss out the color altogether and got with black and white. I took the image into Photoshop and had a go at converting it. You can check that out here. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y248/fxmixer/lifesignatures.jpg Besides the obvious conversion to black and white, I did a few other things to liven it up. I increased to overall brightness of the image by about 20 percent and I increased the overall contrast by 15 percent or so. I then applied a vignette to the image, darkening the edges to tone down some of the brightness there. Lastly I cropped in just a touch from the left and top to tighten up the composition. I hope this was helpful, and if you have any questions about this or any other image, drop me an email. Cheers! Hey, it’s Marshall from I Heart Faces. First of all, very cool blog. I’m really diggin’ it. And you like JPG Magazine! High five! Ok, the picture. I agree with the previous commenter about the white balance being the issue. This looks like tungsten white balance which tells the camera to expect a very bluish light and compensate for it. In the absence of a RAW file, you kinda have to work with what you’ve got. Your processing of the image made it look as thought the toning was intentional, which is very good. It still seems a bit lacking in contrast, meaning there’s not enough dark blacks and light whites. My thought would be to just toss out the color altogether and got with black and white. I took the image into Photoshop and had a go at converting it. You can check that out here.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y248/fxmixer/lifesignatures.jpg

Besides the obvious conversion to black and white, I did a few other things to liven it up. I increased to overall brightness of the image by about 20 percent and I increased the overall contrast by 15 percent or so. I then applied a vignette to the image, darkening the edges to tone down some of the brightness there. Lastly I cropped in just a touch from the left and top to tighten up the composition.

I hope this was helpful, and if you have any questions about this or any other image, drop me an email. Cheers!

]]> By: Andrea http://lifesignatures.org/wordpress/2009/07/fix-it-for-me-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-2224 Andrea Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:31:45 +0000 http://lifesignatures.org/wordpress/?p=6591#comment-2224 Probably not what you want to hear, but I think if you only have a jpeg, the best route to go is a cross-processed look like you have above, or a nice B&W. I tried converting this photo to black & white using a gradient map (adjusting the levels some within the gradient map), and it turned out really nice. Probably not what you want to hear, but I think if you only have a jpeg, the best route to go is a cross-processed look like you have above, or a nice B&W. I tried converting this photo to black & white using a gradient map (adjusting the levels some within the gradient map), and it turned out really nice.

]]> By: Andrea http://lifesignatures.org/wordpress/2009/07/fix-it-for-me-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-2223 Andrea Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:58:18 +0000 http://lifesignatures.org/wordpress/?p=6591#comment-2223 Quick question for you? Do you happen to have this photo in RAW format? If so, the fix will be so, so easy by just changing the white balance setting. Quick question for you? Do you happen to have this photo in RAW format? If so, the fix will be so, so easy by just changing the white balance setting.

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