Thursday, October 8, 2009
Photoshop Workbench 198: Dealing with Hot Spots During the Color Correction Process
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In bright midday light, it can be extremely difficult to deal with bright highlights and deep shadows. Even bracketing exposures and using Photomatix Pro to compensate for extreme tonal range won’t solve many midday lighting problems.
In this Machu Picchu example submitted by Brian Dakota, he only had time to capture one frame. Even after processing the single image through Photomatix Pro to compress tonal range and enhance detail in the stones, he was still confronted with the challenge of bands of bright highlights adjacent to shadow regions. In today’s Workbench, I’ll introduce you to a quick technique for dealing with this challenge – one that doesn’t require precise selection-making or careful masking.
Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 9:32 am
Mark, I always learn so much from your Photoshop Workbenches. However, I have noticed that you have switched the format to flv which seems that it plays on your website but doesn’t play with Quicktime or Windows Media Player. Is this because you are releasing your workbenches as dvds now? I really enjoyed saving them and then playing them while I was working on the image that I was trying to perfect. Now, I can’t. I am sure there are other people in my situation.
Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Yeah ! Another vote for bringing back the QuickTime format (.mov) again. The flv’s suck.
Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 11:32 pm
WHEN IT COMES TO OUTDOOR COLOR CORRECTION OR ENHANCEMENT.IDEAS. I THING YOU ARE ONE OF THE GOOD ONE.
THANK YOU.
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 6:25 am
The last two workbenches (197 & 198) pulsate in and out of focus makes the video very hard to view. This never happened before your changes
I went back to 196 and didn’t have the problem. I enjoy the workbenches but can’t abide the fluctuations.
Thank you
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Yeah – Have people forgotten something here? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!!
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Yek ! The quality goes down ! These flash movies are showstoppers. It’s like thinking you see a beautiful woman, only to find out she has bad breath… I’m not enjoying it anymore like this despite Mark’s great content – sorry.
Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 12:20 pm
The image fluctuates focus in and out and is very very distracting. Don’t like it as much as it was earlier. Sorry, but you want to know how we see it. I would say go back to the way it was until you “messed with things”, changed them….and now it is not the high quality as before. You can FIX it.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 7:55 am
Its now been several weeks of poor video quality and still no fix yet?
Why the move away from quicktime in the first place?
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 11:24 am
I find it very interesting that there is no feedback yet on this from the site owners. Sounds like maybe no fix is possible or forthcoming?
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I find it amazing that after years of free quality content directly from Mark’s generosity that all you people milking free educational content can do nothing but complain about the new format and lower quality. Does this at all impede you ability to learn let alone constantly reference Mark’s knowledge. If you want the high quality movies for your collection in the future BUY IT! Don’t look a gifted horse in the mouth, stop complaining, learn, and enjoy. By the way, thanks Mark for awesome tutorials…
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Ditto Doug
Friday, October 16, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Yeah! What Doug said there!
I’ve got almost all of Mark’s workbenches, both from here and Radiant Vista. Most cost me nothing. They’ve taught me more than the $50 books could, so I can put up with a little “inconvenience.”
Mike
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 1:29 pm
The videos seems to play fine on my 12 inch powerbook. I am currently viewing #198 with no problems. The only problem I have is that Flash seems to put my machine to sleep eventually (This also happens with Lightroom 1). So I have to keep waking the machine from sleep.
Mark you are the greatest! I’ve learnt so much from watching the work benches. I used to follow you during your podcast with Fred(?) Keep up the good work. I will be purchasing your book soon as I am gathering material to study for photoshop certification.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 5:38 am
I have to agree with Doug and Arthur. Its a shame that some people don’t appreciate the effort that goes into these tutorials.
I really enjoy Mark’s work and find his tutorials easy to follow.
I have purchased 2 of your companions and the Botanical Dreaming book and have nothing but praise for them.
Well done and thank you.