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azeem

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#1650 2008-04-08 21:21 GMT

i was looking at some portfolios on www.photo.net

especially this one http://photo.net/photodb/member-photos?user_id=657196&include=all&unlimit=1

and i was amazed by the rich and deep colors of the photos because most of them were out doors

how can i get such colors is there a photoshop technique or a lighting technique or a filter?

monique

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#1652 2008-04-10 08:30 GMT

Good question! Wow! I see what you mean. Those are very beautiful, colour rich photos. I suspect photoshop, lighting and filters all may have some part in that. I would be grateful to know as well how to achieve such results. Thanks for asking that question, Azeem. Hope to hear some great suggestions.

MBPhoto

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#1653 2008-04-10 08:46 GMT

Looking through these briefly i can see that he has either boosted the colours in photoshop or used a Polarising filter - but im pretty sure its mostly photoshop - alot of burning and dodging.

"Time goes on, things change from moment to moment, and a photo is all that remains of the moment past..."

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#1654 2008-04-10 20:33 GMT

can not say that I like those colors too much - they are boosted over the edge. It is for sure PS, but his equipment is also very good. How to do it - it is not rocket science, there are many PS tutorials about boosting colors - you can simply work with "selected colors" filter - and change any component of any color, also shooting in raw - you can make a color gamma in the spectrum that you wish. Hue and saturation or matching colors - permit you to change luminosity and intencity of colors.

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#1893 2008-06-07 12:30 GMT

Just as it's been said before, I can also say those pictures are surely manipulated. (What, in my opinion, is not a problem at all.)

If you would like to see something similar in your pictures you should learn about Lab colour mode. I'm not even to trying to explain the advantages of it since it would take a whole webpage

, a google search will surely help. But I'd like to share a great way to deal with your pictures in Photoshop.

First step of course is to convert your picture to Lab colour mode (Image>Mode>Lab).

If you want to change the luminosity of your picture then go to the Channels pallette and choose the luminosity channel. Then go to Image>Adjustments>Levels (Ctrl+L on PC, command+L on the Mac) and pull the black and the white triangles below your histogram somewhat closer together (for better understanding of the histogram I again suggest a google search)

If you'd like to boost the saturation, then first pick the 'a' channel then again levels and try to find a good setup (it really depends on your picture, but pulling the black triangle up to 20 and pull the white triangle down to 235 below the histogram usually gives pretty good reasult), then repeat it on the b channel.

Change your colour mode back to RGB after you finished.

If you have any other question feel free to PM me or ask here in the forums. I'll surely help if I can.

azeem

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#1894 2008-06-07 13:18 GMT

thanks for the great info

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please post again to tell us your name

i followed your steps and got great results

thanks again i always appreciate it when someone offers me help

Caesar

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#1897 2008-06-07 15:56 GMT

Woops. I didn't even notice it.

Probably typing took too long and in the meantime the site logged me off.
I'm very happy my advices helped you.

So it's me.

Caesar.

Edit: and of course in the previous post Luminosity is actually Lightness. I changed them due to my lack of English knowledge.