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Student Image: Journal

We've got some quite bright highlights here on. We've got some proponents in mid tones, and we got some shadows. So what we're gonna do, um I think that we should bring out some of the You should highlight her legs or feet and then maybe dark in the front edge of the book there. Okay. I mean, bring out the word a little bit with a Timo do. Let's just put one curb on it. Her name. Just having a bit of contrast on. And that's legs have gone quite saturated. Let's think about color. So there are other things I would suggest is where I agree. Maybe thing yet we work here would bring out in the texture. But if we wanted to have a tone to this what kind of tone? I think that would be kind of cool if it was toned with, like, a green in color to make it look kind of surreal. Is that gonna Okay, See? Got bigger. Dio channel mixer. Yeah, let's try that. What you want of feeling the moment is the Red Channel that you modifying the Red Channel, So yeah, let's just reset that second you're talking ...

about I didn't. Green. Um, it's probably gonna make a bit more sense to change. Yeah. Yeah, so kind of Yeah, Yeah, yeah. All right. All right. So maybe there. What? You What you wanted to say by making the change? What? We're trying to enter it. More edgy. Feel. Yeah, kind of like a little mysterious like, um, I don't know, like sci fi looking, are I don't right was Let's start some rules. Let's get let's get a curve. We didn't look at any of the presets for coloring. There's a whole range of strange stuff in here. So, for example, we've got color negative, which you you're never ever going to use for anything because it's just silly. But you can kind of see what it's done here. It's inverted. It's inverted everything by switching the color curves is also cross process. So this might be kind of a starting point to think off. Now you can see this kind of some weirdness going on here with a different curves. Anyone who's ever cross processed film will know that cross bracelets film doesn't look like this. This is this is Darby's kind of I don't know, really. It's not very good on, but way kind of Turn this down a bit. Uh, let's turn this curve down a little bit, like up there. Um, what you're talking about was Antoninus and green. But what we could do is if we go Teoh the red curve, we can take out kind of adding some kind of science here. Did he say sorry? Fine. Yeah, Maybe not. Not far, though. I'm trying work out what you mean by selling. Someone commented on the Internet about the green, reminding them that we have now Shaun T that we've now in the Matrix. So let's say for making pacts. What's there's the original. So this is kind of quite profound change there. Is that? Yeah. Is that kind of in the direction you're thinking of? One? Not Not really. That green. Not that green. Let's go back to the green. Um, turned green down a bit. Just like really subtle. Settle green. Maybe side. If I was wrong. Yeah, kind of. SciFi comes up quite vivid colors. For me, there's not any better. I think it's still too green to green surprise green past. We don't want degree a tall. So that's Let's just get rid of green for time being. Is it still too green? It's It is actually especially most science kind of messing around with the red Kabas. Well, won't say Let's see what? Let's just let's just stop and start again, Okay? So which told you might say, Well, let's switch it with a switch Tools on. Let's take a look at the color balance talk. Okay, the reason was selected. This one is We've got this control with shadows, mottos and highlights. Now we're clearly got that with parents tool, but it's easy to get lost with Kurt's talk. You dragged them all over the place. It looks a bit strange. So what we can nail, think off is, here's the highlights on Here's the midterms, typically with shadows. It doesn't make a great difference if I if I could, the shadows on it's making some difference. But very dark areas don't get affected, so we can't. We can't affect the darker areas. We're kind of in terms. We can affect the highlights. How do we want this to look? What is it we're aiming for? If it's not green? What moved. Let's talk about the mood like drama. Dramatic, um, like mysterious Because she's in an alley and you have this girl or you have a person or a girl wearing these high heels with journal laying on the ground. So we're trying tell some kind of story of, um, something's wrong, You know? She doesn't doesn't feel like it in the right place, so you can learn something dramatic, right? Would have investor for rent a black and white first, maybe try a minute. Guys getting bumped. Game some help on that. It was a There was a comment in the forum that said they thought it would be good for you Processed this photo. That's no one of nine on Got Master Gallery. I kind of remember subscribers. Yeah, that look kind of cool at that. Yeah. Yeah, it's sort of a green in the back. Everyone's got that link. You can see the kind of adults head. Yeah, they're talking about that one on the Internet picking out your site. Yeah, that's one of the members gallery people. Take a look. That's papers described. The tutorials is kind of all the before and after people generated, So yeah, there is truly awesome worth in the gallery. All right, How do that I would be looking at that way. Don't want to tone the whole photo. Just the like the concrete rights in. We're looking at the mid terms here, and we're looking at kind of a kind of a science kind of green. So we're looking at something like this. What we need now is more contrast. Yeah, Yeah, and some more like natural skin tone and her feet rocket coming were never fix that. That's that's an additive. That country's first. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You bothered Apparently the color of a statement. I just like to have some more light, at least on the front of her, like the top of her foot. Right? Okay, says the several ways to do that. Let's not have too many cares. Let's just stick with one caps. Pull it down on right. So we've got one curve in one color box just so let's set the capacitive this brush to about 47%. It's kind of 47 cents of relevant it could be anywhere 40 50. Something like that, um, was point. I was fell, but Sophie and that requires dark. Let's paint over the color palettes layer as well, so I feel like a little more of a natural color. I said. It's interesting. A decade of natural to read now gente Yeah, but that's the color they are. I kind I still kind of think this could be done in color, but I think I think way probably need to cheat at this point. Go black and white because then we can stop worrying about specific bits of color. And if we got to read what kind of life on anyone or anything now, of course, is get rid of those masks. There's no reason for my skin in those areas, not kind of quite like that. Like that one. You That's pretty cool on what would retreat there? No, for me if we're setting the balance, the images, a whole kind of that that curve, writes Robert. What would be nice is it kept kind of lines on the book. I think, uh, it's a kind of brightness is nice, but we've lost. We lost the lines so I could either mask that off or it's having another another curve. What kind of quite like that's pretty cool. It's cool It's kind of a completely on top extreme, very extreme, and it just kind of work on. But let's now currently past there eventually. Yeah. So we need to kind of repent inch that. Yeah, back. I think this is ludicrousness steak. Now what? Don's kind of pulled back. That's from the lines in the book. Kind of. Does that go some way towards backer chair here somewhere? Does that go some way towards what you're thinking? It's a lot further than what I would have gone with it. And what? Why? Um, I don't think I would have taken it that far to the green, But But let's look at him. Look, that's pretty cool. Just like the shot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not sure about the green. I think it kind of because we've added the contrast. Now, you kind of got the mood that you want it. Yeah. One thing you'll notice when we've been going through these images is on, and I haven't mentioned this yet. Is kind of the color back. That toning layer should be at the top. So when you tone in image, it's important where you put layer that tone image with Why would that be? You think Because you want to tone all of the layers versus Yeah, that's what happens if I add a curves adjustment layer over top here and we increase the contrast again to say the saturation goes up Now this is kind of OK if it's intentional, when you do it, cost a live image. If I kind of I start adding in I'm a curves adjustment last for a section of an image above atoning, not only do increase the contrast, I'm also increasing saturation. So the toning is now completely wrong because it is much more green and saturated on this side, and it is on that side now I could mess about on change. The blend mode to luminosity kind of fixes it, but the easy way to make sure that you're applying kind of a uniform tone to the images. A hole is to place the tonal, a riot, the top of the last stack. When you don't have this problem, layers above it don't start interfering with it. Kind of makes sense so or whatever it happens to bay, it could be selected color color bands, Channel Mexico or any number of things. I kind of think C p a nice here. Just think of some kind of junky. I'm on a date with care. Uh, something like that. It's kind of not as harsh, but for me, that kind of fits the mood of the old journal. Maybe the writing, newspaper or cursive, if you're gonna do it in this way. Yeah, It's telling a slightly different story. What kind of works do you think? Yeah. Yeah, when you're all thinking it read. Yeah, kind of. If you're not seeking with a low Exanta writings is a bit difficult. See that curve on? There's two different ways of doing it. Lets reset that you can either kind of do it like this, which is bring the blues down. But the greens up a little bit on the Reds, up about as much as he took the blues down by Kind of the problem with that is your whites end up looking a bit too white. Normally s. So what I would do from DNC, Pia, is instead of putting a midpoint on contract, the white point there to kind of end up with kind of rich, creamy highlights fading through to C p A. Anywhere else new image. You just brought the blue and more yellow added to the home like since the mid tones Me writing green on more red than you are green It's right turns you end up with this This kind of nice CP time Kind of makes sense. Yeah, And I think those creamy whites and highlights that makes her with you too. Yeah. You know, if your tone it, then you don't want bright white invariable wrong.