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Could someone DL and post a tiny filter for me? I can not get an account set up, I don’t know why.

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thanatoid
Feb 9, 2008
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There is a great filter available on Adobe exchange but it requires you to sign up. The sign-up is free and I do not believe you even have to prove you own any Adobe products (I do) but for some reason the Adobe server shuts down the connection when I try to set up an account. I have tried several times, with different browsers. Maybe it’s because I’m not in the U.S. I don’t know.

I was wondering if there is perhaps a kind soul in this group who IS a member of the Adobe community and who could DL this filter for me and post it here. The file is only 2.5 KB.

My guess is that is it is just a text file (a script) and can be posted here with no trouble – perhaps between two lines of ***** so I can copy it exactly.

If not, any basic little-used binaries group will do, I have often used "test" groups for these kinds of things. No one minds.

The filter is called "underwater correction", by all accounts is extremely clever and effective, and its URL is:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extens ionD etail&extid=1042430

I am not a big fan of "TIA!!!" but I will certainly be very grateful and express thanks to whomever helps me with this.

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granny
Feb 10, 2008
"thanatoid" wrote in message
The filter is called "underwater correction", by all accounts is extremely clever and effective, and its URL is:

http://pt010.da-kine.info/adjustments.htm

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thanatoid
Feb 10, 2008
"granny" wrote in
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"thanatoid" wrote in message
The filter is called "underwater correction", by all accounts is extremely clever and effective, and its URL
is:

http://pt010.da-kine.info/adjustments.htm

Thank you, granny. (Your reply makes me wonder AGAIN just HOW many people actually use the Usenet… You may recall I was a
[useless] part of the thread about this problem in 24hr a while
ago – which you provided the solution for. I saved your post and I /finally/ got around to trying to get the filter…)

Having the procedure explained step by step is much better too!

Thank you VERY much for the link.

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tony cooper
Feb 11, 2008
On 10 Feb 2008 20:27:30 GMT, thanatoid
wrote:

"thanatoid" wrote in message
The filter is called "underwater correction", by all accounts is extremely clever and effective, and its URL
is:

http://pt010.da-kine.info/adjustments.htm
It just so happens that tonight I was scanning some old slides into computer images. I’m using a Minolta Dimage Scan Elite slide and negative scanner. I’m just finishing up a project of scanning in hundreds of slides taken between 1964 and 1979.

Some of the slides are images of a dive trip that I took my daughter on in the 70s. The image in the link is my daughter at "Sting Ray City" in the Cayman Islands.

Using the tutorial linked above, I started with
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/caymanA.jpg

and came up with the lower image at:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/caymancolor .jpg

Obviously, I’m not doing something right. I was fine until Step 8) Make adjustments with Hue/Saturation and Color Balance.

Looking at my results, then at the actual slide in a viewer, the water is a much more vivid greenish-blue in the slide. The snorkel tip is bright red in the slide. The diveskin on my daughter is blue and gray and very much like the colors in the corrected image. (The only colors that came out right) The fish in the background does not have any color in the slide…too far away for the flash to illuminate.

When I adjust hue/saturation or color balance to get the water color, it affects the non-water parts of the image. The sting ray and my daughter turn greenish-blue. I can’t get rid of that violet cast.

Divers may want to know this: the photo was taken at about 15 feet. The bottom at Sting Ray City is about 30 feet. Not deep enough to get that blue that deeper water shots get.

I don’t expect really true color since I’m converting a slide to a ..jpg. (I scan and save in .psd, but convert to .jpg to post) But I’d like better.

Suggestions?

(Using Photoshop 7.0 so I can’t use the CS plug-in)

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Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida
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granny
Feb 11, 2008
"tony cooper" wrote in message
On 10 Feb 2008 20:27:30 GMT, thanatoid
wrote:

"thanatoid" wrote in message
The filter is called "underwater correction", by all accounts is extremely clever and effective, and its URL
is:

http://pt010.da-kine.info/adjustments.htm
It just so happens that tonight I was scanning some old slides into computer images.
Using the tutorial linked above, I started with
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/caymanA.jpg
and came up with the lower image at:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/caymancolor .jpg

I don’t expect really true color since I’m converting a slide to a .jpg. (I scan and save in .psd, but convert to .jpg to post) But I’d like better.

Suggestions?

(Using Photoshop 7.0 so I can’t use the CS plug-in)

Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

Tony I am using PS7 also, and the action at the bottom of that page works fine and it covers everything up to step 7..
On your picture I adjusted levels after running the action using the three eye droppers (White on snorkel tube), (Black on back of vest), (the gray was in the rays wing above her head and used last). After that a hue/saturation layer adjusting for the girl (I think I adjusted about all the sliders for individual colors till they looked right to me..) My Version of your Picture is here:
http://img174.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=17634_caymanA_cop yCorrected_122_557lo.jpg or (if the above link is broken)
http://tinyurl.com/24zmys
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Dave
Feb 11, 2008
"granny" > wrote:

"thanatoid"
The filter is called "underwater correction", by all accounts is extremely clever and effective, and its URL is:

While I was still searching for the action on one of my DVD’s Granny was about the width of an hair ahead, by posting the URL. Granny was faster, but at least I found it in action form on a DVD, and thought… ‘Let’s try it..:-)’ and here it is…

I (obviously) only used it on the turtle because I like the water the way it is.
Click on
http://dave.photos.gb.net/p48360470.html
and then on
‘Full Size’ which enlarge it slightly.
(this is reduced from A4 size tiffs)

I you(s) want the atn file, I can post it.

Dave
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granny
Feb 11, 2008
"tony cooper" wrote in message

When I adjust hue/saturation or color balance to get the water color, it affects the non-water parts of the image. The sting ray and my daughter turn greenish-blue. I can’t get rid of that violet cast. Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

Tony, After reading your post again I realized that you wanted to keep the blue/green water color so I overlaid your original and masked out the girl and lightened the color tint on the stingers..
http://img218.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=50911_caymanA_cop ymasked_122_433lo.jpg or
http://tinyurl.com/2xougj

Good luck and have fun with your project..
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"Granny"
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tony cooper
Feb 11, 2008
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:52:17 -0600, "granny"
wrote:

"tony cooper" wrote in message

When I adjust hue/saturation or color balance to get the water color, it affects the non-water parts of the image. The sting ray and my daughter turn greenish-blue. I can’t get rid of that violet cast. Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

Tony, After reading your post again I realized that you wanted to keep the blue/green water color so I overlaid your original and masked out the girl and lightened the color tint on the stingers..
http://img218.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=50911_caymanA_cop ymasked_122_433lo.jpg or
http://tinyurl.com/2xougj
There you go. Very close to the image on the slide in a slide viewer.

So that’s the only way, hunh? Masking the diver and working with the water as a separate thing?

That’s fine, because the "keep factor" in this series is the fact that my daughter is in some images, and I’m in other images. None of the shots in the series are particularly good (or very good at all) underwater scene images. It wouldn’t be worth the time to mask fish or coral or sea urchins to change the water color.

You know…shifting the subject a little bit…when working with Photoshop and camera images there seem to be two types of images: the really good photo, and good because of composition and subject matter, and the photo that is not particular outstanding on it’s own merits but captures a person that we want to retain an image of.

The former seldom needs more than a minor tweak or two. The latter takes the most time, but the result is more important.

In working with these old slides, I notice that I’m discarding the "art shots". That old, weathered Indiana barn, the rusty pump against a buttermilk sky, and the ornate lightning rods on the barn roof went out. Fun at the time to see how my "camera eye" was, but now not all that important.

But I did spend time working on the shots of Annabelle the part-Siamese cat that died years ago but was a favorite of the kids when they were little, and of Quincy the stupidest, lovable mutt we’ve ever owned. That picture of the kids (now grown-ups) holding Quincy’s puppies is poorly composed and slightly out-of-focus, but more of a keeper than any really good photograph.

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Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

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