Re: Changing perceptions

John West Wrote:
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> Very helpful Kevin. I regularly use camera raw to
> adjust digital originals because it is an integral
> part of the work flow. And I really like some of
> the adjustments in raw. But with scanned slides I
> have never thought much about opening them in raw,
> because it is an extra step. But I tried it using
> bridge, and was able to get much closer to your
> version. Like you say, Photoshop is a never
> ending learning process.
>
> JBWX


I can't speak for anyone else, but I always found raw much easier to correct color balance (especially dealing with slides and scanned prints) compared to the tools in photoshop itself....and I'm using CS3, which is rather antiquated. I tend to prefer the shadows and highlights sliders as well in the raw version. I've recently discovered the luminance feature in raw. Get everything else about where you want it, then mess with the blue slider in luminance to get the sky to the correct color. Basically lets you get the effect of shooting with a polarizer working in post. Little tips and tricks that you pick up, and I'm sure there's a boatload of them out there that I don't know.

I can't tell you exactly what I did on this image since I didn't keep it, but I do remember some red and orange and warming filters (and perhaps a cooling filter, of which one of them also brings some red in there). For the filters, you do just enough to get the effect without overdoing it. Then, I started messing with the saturation of individual colors, and then color balance. Then, work on contrast at the end to get the shadows correct.