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xafsanax
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 Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 7:15 am Post subject: need help.. |
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hey, i was wondering if there was a way of making a normal digital camera photo into a model type with lighting effects, if there is, can anyone pls help me? thnk u
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hawkeye
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There are lighting effects, skin smoothing techniques, dodge/burn etc. that might help replicate the look but...nothing is going to take the place of proper lighting when the picture is taken. |
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xafsanax
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thnk u and ive looked on tutorials and it says go to image and adjustments thn black and white but tht option isnt there on adobe fotoshop 7, how do i find it?
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hawkeye
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| xafsanax wrote: | | thnk u and ive looked on tutorials and it says go to image and adjustments thn black and white but tht option isnt there on adobe fotoshop 7, how do i find it? |
I don't thing that was available in PS7. For simple B&W you can just change the image mode to grayscale, or adjustments-desaturate.
For a little better control use a channel mixer adjustment layer, set to monochrome. There should be some options in the dropdown box available or you can adjust the sliders manually. |
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thehermit
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I would tend to go with a channel mix as hawkeye suggests too for what it's worth, just seems to get a richer B&W print.
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K-touch
Joined: 17 Jan 2010
Posts: 166
Location: Sydney, Australia.
PS Version: CS, CS2, CS3, CS4
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You can on how or where the photo was taken, and then you'll just have to learn some lighting FX, and layer masking...
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BobbyB
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Ok so i have a situation. My husband and I hired a photographer to take our wedding picture's. It turn's out he wasn't the greatest and in the end he just provided us with a disc of all the unedited raw files. Naturally when viewing these images they look terrible (dark, lot's of shadowing etc) and look much worse when printed.
The photographer told us that he doesn't know how to edit the pic's for us.. so basically I'm having to do this by myself. I'm currently using PS CS2 and want to edited the raw files images so I can make a album from this. The problem is I'm new to Photoshop and have no experience in editing images, so please excuse me if my questions don't make much sense:
Can someone please help me and tell me the basic's I need to know about editing images?
How can I open the raw images in PS - the file is a NEF file (DSC_0097.NEF) and I'm assuming I need to open it as a jpeg? how do I convert it? and what the best format to use to ensure good quality printing?
When editing raw images which file format should I be converting the images in? I'm - sRGB or aRGB?
Any other setting I need to be aware of to get best output?
What's the best method of editing raw file images? .
When saving the images, is there anything I need to keep in mind?
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hawkeye
Joined: 14 May 2009
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Sorry for your experience with the photographer, I hope he wasn't paid too much. I can't imagine a photographer saying he doesn't know how to edit pictures, that's what a photographer is being paid to do.
Even with them being raw files, there isn't any reason that they should look terrible. I shoot raw all the time, and they look great right out of the camera. Editing is for mainly adjusting white balance, exposure, sharpness and contrast, etc.
The bad news: CS2 is an older program so if the photographer used any newer Nikon camera, you will not be able to open the raw files in PS. Blame Adobe for this.
I shoot with Canon so I can't say for sure but... check Nikon's site as they should have software for opening the raw files and it will likely be capable of basic editing too.
All photos are different and editing will depend upon what they need. It's simply impossible to say without seeing them, what and how to proceed. It simply isn't a one answer type of question. If you are new to Photoshop as you say, you're just not going to be able to handle the task yourself. There is a very steep learning curve with PS and raw files just makes it steeper.
You really should consider having someone edit them for you. It wouldn't cost all that much, and these are once in a lifetime images. If you'd like me to look at a couple to see what can be done. email me.
I'll PM you my email address. |
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