Salvage Saturday

Ben Egbert

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Time to pile on with your reworked images. Sorry I am late, just got back from an overnight camping/photo trip.

This image was never hard to process, but the newer tools, not the least in Photoshop just makes it better IMO. Now if PS just had a mules ear action to make this look like Tom Tills image.

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JimFox

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Ha ha Ben, yeah a Mules Ear action would be cool! We can replace the sky in our photos now, why can't we add flowers into the ground layer? :)
 

Ben Egbert

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Great result Douglas, So I assume you did this in ACR a total of three times at 100% white and 100% black. Neat trick. I often take generous amounts but seldom 100%

I went back and reread your method, so you selected whites and removed black from just the whites? I would not know how to do that.
 

John Holbrook

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"X" White Oak Springs, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN (April 2009) Nikon D300, I enhanced in PS with the super resolution feature, and edited for better color and luminosity. (Oops, it‘s Saturday!—running late today).

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Ben Egbert

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"X" White Oak Springs, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN (April 2009) Nikon D300, I enhanced in PS with the super resolution feature, and edited for better color and luminosity. (Oops, it‘s Saturday!—running late today).

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Very nice editing. Do you find applying super resolution helps at web size or is it for your own personal use like printing.
 

Jameel Hyder

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Great result Douglas, So I assume you did this in ACR a total of three times at 100% white and 100% black. Neat trick. I often take generous amounts but seldom 100%

I went back and reread your method, so you selected whites and removed black from just the whites? I would not know how to do that.
one way would be in ACR use the mask by selecting the whites (color range) and move the black slider back all the way. Repeat.
 

John Holbrook

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Very nice editing. Do you find applying super resolution helps at web size or is it for your own personal use like printing.
It doesn't help with web files but now I have that res available for other uses––just experimenting. The D300 has a 12 megapixel sensor, far smaller than today's camera sensors.
 

Ben Egbert

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one way would be in ACR use the mask by selecting the whites (color range) and move the black slider back all the way. Repeat.
Thats what I was thinking and why I took the wrong path at first until I reread his comments.

It doesn't help with web files but now I have that res available for other uses––just experimenting. The D300 has a 12 megapixel sensor, far smaller than today's camera sensors.

Thanks John for clarifying, it's what I thought. I also process primarily for print even though I only print 1% of my images.
 

JimFox

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Ben, I am glad you came up with this idea as it's been fun for me to go back through my old images and pull up ones I had never processed.

This one is from Badwater in Death Valley. It's a 6 shot pano. It's from back in the day (2007) before I shot totally in Raw, so my only images of this are in jpg.

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