workflow_comparison
This is a comparison of my old and new Photoshop workflows. See full-size for best comparison. The original photo-which sucks--is on top. The middle one was accomplished with my normal photoshop workflow, which is an improvement, but the colors are horrible. The bottom one was created using Dan Margulis's "Picture Postcard" workflow, which is dramatically better than either of the others.
The new workflow involves 3 stages. Simplified, they are:
1. removing minor color casts in RGB mode without regard for contrast
2. boosting the contrast without regard for color
3. combining the color from step 1 and the contrast from step 2 in Lab mode while also boosting overall color.
Today is the first day I've been trying this new workflow, and I did this one rather quickly, so I don't contend that I've created a perfect image. But it's so much better than the way it would have otherwise ended up that clearly, I will be changing the way I fix pictures in Photoshop from now on.
workflow_comparison
This is a comparison of my old and new Photoshop workflows. See full-size for best comparison. The original photo-which sucks--is on top. The middle one was accomplished with my normal photoshop workflow, which is an improvement, but the colors are horrible. The bottom one was created using Dan Margulis's "Picture Postcard" workflow, which is dramatically better than either of the others.
The new workflow involves 3 stages. Simplified, they are:
1. removing minor color casts in RGB mode without regard for contrast
2. boosting the contrast without regard for color
3. combining the color from step 1 and the contrast from step 2 in Lab mode while also boosting overall color.
Today is the first day I've been trying this new workflow, and I did this one rather quickly, so I don't contend that I've created a perfect image. But it's so much better than the way it would have otherwise ended up that clearly, I will be changing the way I fix pictures in Photoshop from now on.