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Here is an example of my workflow, and I encourage you to look at this file as “Original Size” and at 100%. By the way, this plane is a North American T6 "Texan" trainer.
I spent pretty-much the entire day today trying to tweak my standard photo-processing workflow. After all of this, my conclusion is that what I have been doing is pretty good, and I’ll probably stick with it.
First, I tried the DxO product, “PhotoLab 2”. My conclusion is that this would make a good, cost-effective replacement for Lightroom/Photoshop, but I already have the Adobe products, I have used them for years and I am used to them, and I see no compelling reason to change now. This is especially true since I am eligible for the Adobe “education discount”, which makes LR/PS affordable for me. If I were looking for a good photo-processing software package, and faced paying full retail, I’d definitely consider DxO PhotoLab 2, however.
I next went looking for an alternative sharpening tool. I have used various methods over time without being 100% satisfied with any of them. I have seen tools from the company Topaz Labs recommended, so I picked up the trial version of both their sharpener and NR software. I was underwhelmed. First, the Topaz plugins are very, VERY slow. When I am doing a commission and processing a hundred shots, the speed difference would probably add a few hours to the process and I don’t need that. There also doesn’t seem to be an easy, direct way to restrict the application of the tool. Especially when used from LR, sharpening and NR are all-or-nothing across the entire image, which is not true in my existing workflow. I want to sharpen my subject, and only my subject, and I want to reduce noise in the background, and only the background. I have developed techniques in PS that let me do this, and I can’t understand why this concept isn’t standard in every photo-processing application.
Another issue that I had was that a lot of these tools are not tightly integrated, as the Adobe products are, and they require the creation of an intermediate file like a TIF. Once again, when processing hundreds of shots, this will chew up an enormous amount of HD space. These extraneous, intermediate files could be deleted afterwards, of course, but that’s one-more-step in the workflow, and it should be unnecessary.
The outline of what I do is;
LIGHTROOM:
•Import my RAW images and use LR as my library-management tool, including automatic backups.
•Make a virtual-copy of what I am about to process so that my original RAW file is untouched.
•Crop and Straighten
•Adjust WB (if necessary) and “Tone” (using “auto” as a starting point)
•Adjust “Presence”. My starting-point is (top-down) 20/20/10/20/-10
•Select “show clipping” (the up-arrows in the histogram) and adjust “Whites” and “Blacks” so that the dynamic-range is full-spectrum and just-barely hitting the clip-points.
It is also my standard practice to use automatic lens-correction profiles in LR, and LR’s default sharpening (40%) as a preliminary stage. I then pass the image to Photoshop, which is done without creating/saving an intermediate file.
PHOTOSHOP:
•My preference is to do any cloning and healing repairs in Photoshop because I find these PS tools easier to use than LR’s.
•I then often use the DxO/NIK Viveza module as a plugin layer to make localized adjustments. In this sample, I brightened the pilots face, and only his face, using Viveza.
•I then use the “Quick Selection Tool” of PS and select my main subject, the airplane/pilot in this case. I can then use the DxO/NIK Output Sharpener to sharpen only the selected area. This avoids adding excessive and unnecessary noise and sharpening-artifacts to the background. I usually make this step a little harsh, because I can always back it down easily through the layer opacity slider.
•Once I have applied the sharpening modification to the selection, I do an “Inverse Selection” which picks everything except what I have just sharpened. I now run the DxO/NIK Define module for noise-reduction. This allows me to suppress noise in the background where I don’t want it, without softening the lines or blurring the texture on the main-subject. Beyond simple NR, additional blur can be added in this selection too, although it is tricky to do that without making it look unnatural.
I can now save my final result as a JPG and exit without saving any intermediate file. The virtual-copy in LR still contains all of the LR-level changes, and the original RAW file is still available too. I am deliberately throwing away what I have done in PS though, because I don’t want to spend the disk-space and the chances are that if I reprocess, I’ll want to do it all differently anyway.
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To the left is a Levenger notecard holder which acts as a dashboard for notecards and things I'm keeping track of. Behind which is my magazine box with current reading materials like magazines, newsletters, and only those catalogs which might provide interest.
This is an attempt to reprocess some data from 2011 based on a new processing workflow I developed while working on my recent Sword of Orion shot. The original light frames captured some light pollution, which shows here, but I wanted to see if more nebulosity could be seen using the new workflow - which it could!
The M45 "Pleiades" star cluster (a.k.a. "Seven Sisters") is an open star cluster in Taurus. The stars are relatively new, having been formed within the last 100 million years or so, and there is a nebula or dust cloud which the stars are currently passing through.
- 36 minutes (3 minute frames)
- 5 * 3 minute dark frames
- (no flat frames used)
- ISO 800
- Imaged with a Nikon D7000 and Astrotelescopes 80mm ED Refractor
- Guided with a Meade DSI and William Optics 66mm Refractor
- Mounted on a Celestron CGEM
- Stacked in DSS
- Post processing in GIMP
- Mild tonemapping in Photomatix Pro
- Noise reduction in NeatImage
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I do most of my post-processing (organization and editing) in Aperture, occasionally using a plugin or Photoshop when more complex edits are desired. So that's the source of the HUD along the bottom left corner
This is a hipstamatic iPhone photo of me editing a hipstamatic iPhone photo in Aperture 3. I can be all meta and self-referential! Look at me, hipster photographer!
Postproducción workflows; en el marco de actividades del trigésimo cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara. Participan: Andrés Marrine, Cynthia Navarro y David Rodríguez Paredes. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Martes 12 de Marzo de 2019. Foto: © FICG / Gonzalo García
Postproducción workflows; en el marco de actividades del trigésimo cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara. Participan: Andrés Marrine, Cynthia Navarro y David Rodríguez Paredes. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Martes 12 de Marzo de 2019. Foto: © FICG / Gonzalo García
Postproducción workflows; en el marco de actividades del trigésimo cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara. Participan: Andrés Marrine, Cynthia Navarro y David Rodríguez Paredes. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Martes 12 de Marzo de 2019. Foto: © FICG / Gonzalo García
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Workflow:
1. Non destructive
2. Preparing custom brushes
3. Selection & masking
4. Adjustment and Filters
5. Texturising
6. Lighting effects
7. Fine tuning
8. Adobe Lightroom tuning
Used technique: layers, adjustment, smart object styles, masking, clipping masking, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop CC 2017, several Stock Photos, plugins.
1 - From camera
2 - Lightroom 3
+Exposure (if needed)
+White balance shift
+Healing tool for easy blemishes
+Color correction (Vibrance/HSL)
+Brush tool (exposure)
3. Photoshop CS4
+Surface blur, vary opacity
+Levels adjustment & Mask for toning, eyes, background
+Greater healing brush tools
+Liquefy (if needed)
4. Lightroom 3
+Final curves adjustment
+Vignette
+Sharpening
+Export
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.
Was working on updating our JIRA workflow for projects using Feature Cards. Tinderbox maps work well for this - along with pretty much everything else.
The one thing (well, not really the one thing, more like one out of a million things) that I think undermine my fake CG landscapes is the lack of fields and variations in the landscape and things like that.
This is a test of a new workflow I'm trying to give my landscapes a bit more of a realistic vibe. As a matter of law, I have to cite:
Morton, D.; Marston, C. G,; O’Neil, A. W.; Rowland, C. S. (2020). Land Cover Map 2019 (25m rasterised land parcels, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. doi.org/10.5285/f15289da-6424-4a5e-bd92-48c4d9c830cc
This is because I have used the The UKCEH Land Cover Maps for 2019 and done lots of boring GIS things with it in QGIS (the field boundaries shown here are not accurate, but they give a decent enough impression for a first go. I can't afford a full OS licence to make it perfect - and perfection isn't what I'm going for anyway...).
Other software used:
Gaea
Blender
Photoshop
Quixel Mixer
As well as LIDAR data from DEFRA, open source OS data and bits and bobs from Open Street Map.
The idea will be to use the above technique (once honed) to make my far off mountain scenes look a bit better.
Still improvements to be made:
Buildings obviously need work (they're in the right place though);
My dry stone walls look bigger than the hedges and buildings at the mo. Tweaks required.
Too many gaps in the base texture and its a bit too bumpy.
All good fun (for me). Weather is rubbish anyway, so need to stay occupied while its horrible outside.
Can anybody guess where this is? Only prize is pride!
Cannes is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The city is known for its association with the rich and famous, its luxury hotels and restaurants, and for several conferences. On 3 November 2011 it hosted the 2011 G20 summit [Wikipedia.org]