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Broadway Theater, Santa Monica, December 2008
Somewhere on the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California. Best seen on black.
This shot is completely Photoshop from the original HDR right down to my name in the corner, so it marks a milestone for me: the first image I've ever posted here using only Photoshop for processing.
I'm finally figuring out and getting comfortable with PS. It's quite different from GIMP and it's taken a while to get into the different way Adobe think and structure their image processing workflow and tool. I'm really getting to enjoy it!
This image is a good example of what you can do with CS5. These shots are dark and high ISO. When I processed them in Photomatix it came out a horrible mess of hot pixels and just couldn’t be recovered. To be fair, Photomatix has been a great HDR tool and my version I bought two years ago so for software it’s absolutely ancient. I don’t know how the current version of Photomatix would have handled this. PS did a great job getting rid of all the hot pixels without my needing to do anything. It also had an option to remove ghosting which you get when people or items move between HDR shots. My version of Photomatix can only reduce ghosting. The CS5 remove ghost worked brilliantly. The people were originally heavily ghosted here, and PS removed all that with a simply click. Really impressive!
Broadway Theater, Santa Monica, December 2008
Somewhere on the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California. Best seen on black.
This shot is completely Photoshop from the original HDR right down to my name in the corner, so it marks a milestone for me: the first image I've ever posted here using only Photoshop for processing.
I'm finally figuring out and getting comfortable with PS. It's quite different from GIMP and it's taken a while to get into the different way Adobe think and structure their image processing workflow and tool. I'm really getting to enjoy it!
This image is a good example of what you can do with CS5. These shots are dark and high ISO. When I processed them in Photomatix it came out a horrible mess of hot pixels and just couldn’t be recovered. To be fair, Photomatix has been a great HDR tool and my version I bought two years ago so for software it’s absolutely ancient. I don’t know how the current version of Photomatix would have handled this. PS did a great job getting rid of all the hot pixels without my needing to do anything. It also had an option to remove ghosting which you get when people or items move between HDR shots. My version of Photomatix can only reduce ghosting. The CS5 remove ghost worked brilliantly. The people were originally heavily ghosted here, and PS removed all that with a simply click. Really impressive!