polarization Filter glare

bolo wrote:

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???

Thanks in advance.

My stab at it:

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202][img= http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/45515/2000126686236964202_t h.jpg

(sorry about the 2 mile long url, it’s a freebie)
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dvus

devus (cool name)

I could not see anything here. Thanks for the attempt, could you tell me what you did to fix it?
"dvus" wrote in message

bolo wrote:

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???

Thanks in advance.

My stab at it:

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202][img= http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/45515/2000126686236964202_t h.jpg

(sorry about the 2 mile long url, it’s a freebie)
—
dvus

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote in message

bolo wrote:

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???

Thanks in advance.

My stab at it:

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202][img= http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/45515/2000126686236964202_t h.jpg

(sorry about the 2 mile long url, it’s a freebie)

I could not see anything here. Thanks for the attempt, could you tell me what you did to fix it?

[please don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]

It’d be a lot easier to tell you if you could see it, but of course, like anything free, that image site doesn’t work very intuitively. Let me try another and I’ll tell you what I did. You’ll probably get better work from the pros in here anyway.

Wait, that url above is doubled up or something. Lemme try half of it… http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202 seems to work ok.

—
dvus

Actually devus, it looks great, now tell me what you did. I teach a beginning photoshop class, and i use these things you all tell me in my class.

Thanks again!
"dvus" wrote in message

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote in message

bolo wrote:

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???

Thanks in advance.

My stab at it:

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202][img= http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/45515/2000126686236964202_t h.jpg

(sorry about the 2 mile long url, it’s a freebie)

I could not see anything here. Thanks for the attempt, could you tell me what you did to fix it?

[please don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]
It’d be a lot easier to tell you if you could see it, but of course, like anything free, that image site doesn’t work very intuitively. Let me try another and I’ll tell you what I did. You’ll probably get better work from the pros in here anyway.

Wait, that url above is doubled up or something. Lemme try half of it… http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202 seems to work ok.

—
dvus

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote:

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote:

bolo wrote:

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???

Thanks in advance.

My stab at it:

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202][img= http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/45515/2000126686236964202_t h.jpg

(sorry about the 2 mile long url, it’s a freebie)

I could not see anything here. Thanks for the attempt, could you tell me what you did to fix it?

[please don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]
It’d be a lot easier to tell you if you could see it, but of course, like anything free, that image site doesn’t work very intuitively. Let me try another and I’ll tell you what I did. You’ll probably get better work from the pros in here anyway.

Wait, that url above is doubled up or something. Lemme try half of it… http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202 seems to work ok.

Actually devus, it looks great, now tell me what you did. I teach a beginning photoshop class, and i use these things you all tell me in my class.

Thanks again!

[*please* don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]

Ok. I simply grabbed a chunk of the shutter/wall above the flare with the rectangular marquis, copied it and pasted it on top of the flare. I actually forgot to feather it a little so I got those faint horizontal lines you can see. The resolution of the original is pretty low, so you wouldn’t want to feather it more than a pixel or two. Then I used the clone tool to clean up around the paste a little along with the dodge and burn tools at low settings to avoid over-fix.

The faint flare above the window was easy since there’s good image info within, the burn tool at low settings took that right out. I thought about masking it and using some adjustment like layers or darken/lighten but it’s easier to avoid edge artifacts if you do it by hand.

I noticed the glare on the back of the fence was a bit much so I selected one area of it with the magic wand and then used Select/Similar to get the rest. The trick for me is to experiment with the tolerance of the wand since it also adjusts the tolerance of the Select/Similar operation. (I think I used 16). I went into QuickMask mode to paint out some sections of the house that got selected but I didn’t want to touch and then used the Burn tool to calm down the bright highlights a little.

That’s pretty much it, if it were mine I’d adjust the Levels and bump up the saturation slightly, but I’m assuming you have a higher resolution original that you’re going to work on so I didn’t bother. However, keep in mind that some of these guys in here are much more accomplished with Photoshop than I, so you ought to wait and see if they have better advice. I’m just an amateur that does it for fun.

—
dvus

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:48:41 -0500, "dvus"
wrote:

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote:

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote:

bolo wrote:

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???

Thanks in advance.

My stab at it:

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202][img= http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/45515/2000126686236964202_t h.jpg

(sorry about the 2 mile long url, it’s a freebie)

I could not see anything here. Thanks for the attempt, could you tell me what you did to fix it?

[please don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]
It’d be a lot easier to tell you if you could see it, but of course, like anything free, that image site doesn’t work very intuitively. Let me try another and I’ll tell you what I did. You’ll probably get better work from the pros in here anyway.

Wait, that url above is doubled up or something. Lemme try half of it… http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202 seems to work ok.

Actually devus, it looks great, now tell me what you did. I teach a beginning photoshop class, and i use these things you all tell me in my class.

Thanks again!

[*please* don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]
Ok. I simply grabbed a chunk of the shutter/wall above the flare with the rectangular marquis, copied it and pasted it on top of the flare. I actually forgot to feather it a little so I got those faint horizontal lines you can see. The resolution of the original is pretty low, so you wouldn’t want to feather it more than a pixel or two. Then I used the clone tool to clean up around the paste a little along with the dodge and burn tools at low settings to avoid over-fix.

The faint flare above the window was easy since there’s good image info within, the burn tool at low settings took that right out. I thought about masking it and using some adjustment like layers or darken/lighten but it’s easier to avoid edge artifacts if you do it by hand.

I noticed the glare on the back of the fence was a bit much so I selected one area of it with the magic wand and then used Select/Similar to get the rest. The trick for me is to experiment with the tolerance of the wand since it also adjusts the tolerance of the Select/Similar operation. (I think I used 16). I went into QuickMask mode to paint out some sections of the house that got selected but I didn’t want to touch and then used the Burn tool to calm down the bright highlights a little.

That’s pretty much it, if it were mine I’d adjust the Levels and bump up the saturation slightly, but I’m assuming you have a higher resolution original that you’re going to work on so I didn’t bother. However, keep in mind that some of these guys in here are much more accomplished with Photoshop than I, so you ought to wait and see if they have better advice. I’m just an amateur that does it for fun.

Too bad you couldn’t change the composition.

—

Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

Tony,

What do you mean by that? Interested in constructive criticism.

Thanks in advance.
"tony cooper" wrote in message

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:48:41 -0500, "dvus"
wrote:

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote:

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote:

bolo wrote:

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???

Thanks in advance.

My stab at it:

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202][img= http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/45515/2000126686236964202_t h.jpg

(sorry about the 2 mile long url, it’s a freebie)

I could not see anything here. Thanks for the attempt, could you tell me what you did to fix it?

[please don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]
It’d be a lot easier to tell you if you could see it, but of course, like anything free, that image site doesn’t work very intuitively. Let me try another and I’ll tell you what I did. You’ll probably get better work from the pros in here anyway.

Wait, that url above is doubled up or something. Lemme try half of it… http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202 seems to work ok.

Actually devus, it looks great, now tell me what you did. I teach a beginning photoshop class, and i use these things you all tell me in my class.

Thanks again!

[*please* don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]
Ok. I simply grabbed a chunk of the shutter/wall above the flare with the rectangular marquis, copied it and pasted it on top of the flare. I actually
forgot to feather it a little so I got those faint horizontal lines you can
see. The resolution of the original is pretty low, so you wouldn’t want to feather it more than a pixel or two. Then I used the clone tool to clean up
around the paste a little along with the dodge and burn tools at low settings to avoid over-fix.

The faint flare above the window was easy since there’s good image info within, the burn tool at low settings took that right out. I thought about masking it and using some adjustment like layers or darken/lighten but it’s
easier to avoid edge artifacts if you do it by hand.

I noticed the glare on the back of the fence was a bit much so I selected one area of it with the magic wand and then used Select/Similar to get the rest. The trick for me is to experiment with the tolerance of the wand since
it also adjusts the tolerance of the Select/Similar operation. (I think I used 16). I went into QuickMask mode to paint out some sections of the house
that got selected but I didn’t want to touch and then used the Burn tool to
calm down the bright highlights a little.

That’s pretty much it, if it were mine I’d adjust the Levels and bump up the
saturation slightly, but I’m assuming you have a higher resolution original
that you’re going to work on so I didn’t bother. However, keep in mind that
some of these guys in here are much more accomplished with Photoshop than I,
so you ought to wait and see if they have better advice. I’m just an amateur
that does it for fun.

Too bad you couldn’t change the composition.

—

Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

I guess it is rather symetric isn’t it?
"tony cooper" wrote in message

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:48:41 -0500, "dvus"
wrote:

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote:

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote:

bolo wrote:

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???

Thanks in advance.

My stab at it:

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202][img= http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/45515/2000126686236964202_t h.jpg

(sorry about the 2 mile long url, it’s a freebie)

I could not see anything here. Thanks for the attempt, could you tell me what you did to fix it?

[please don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]
It’d be a lot easier to tell you if you could see it, but of course, like anything free, that image site doesn’t work very intuitively. Let me try another and I’ll tell you what I did. You’ll probably get better work from the pros in here anyway.

Wait, that url above is doubled up or something. Lemme try half of it… http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202 seems to work ok.

Actually devus, it looks great, now tell me what you did. I teach a beginning photoshop class, and i use these things you all tell me in my class.

Thanks again!

[*please* don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]
Ok. I simply grabbed a chunk of the shutter/wall above the flare with the rectangular marquis, copied it and pasted it on top of the flare. I actually
forgot to feather it a little so I got those faint horizontal lines you can
see. The resolution of the original is pretty low, so you wouldn’t want to feather it more than a pixel or two. Then I used the clone tool to clean up
around the paste a little along with the dodge and burn tools at low settings to avoid over-fix.

The faint flare above the window was easy since there’s good image info within, the burn tool at low settings took that right out. I thought about masking it and using some adjustment like layers or darken/lighten but it’s
easier to avoid edge artifacts if you do it by hand.

I noticed the glare on the back of the fence was a bit much so I selected one area of it with the magic wand and then used Select/Similar to get the rest. The trick for me is to experiment with the tolerance of the wand since
it also adjusts the tolerance of the Select/Similar operation. (I think I used 16). I went into QuickMask mode to paint out some sections of the house
that got selected but I didn’t want to touch and then used the Burn tool to
calm down the bright highlights a little.

That’s pretty much it, if it were mine I’d adjust the Levels and bump up the
saturation slightly, but I’m assuming you have a higher resolution original
that you’re going to work on so I didn’t bother. However, keep in mind that
some of these guys in here are much more accomplished with Photoshop than I,
so you ought to wait and see if they have better advice. I’m just an amateur
that does it for fun.

Too bad you couldn’t change the composition.

—

Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:47:40 -0600, "bolo"
wrote:

Tony,

What do you mean by that? Interested in constructive criticism.

I don’t believe in the strict adherence to the rules of composition, but I do think the rules provide useful guidelines. The vertical post runs straight up the middle of the image. The angled, but almost horizontal rail, divides the image. The result is an image that looks quartered.

Using the "rule of thirds", placing the vertical post at the left and the horizontal rail further down, would improve the picture. The fence, in focus, with the ironwork on the house in the background and slightly out-of-focus, would result in better composition.

The focus point should have been the fence post cap with the corn ear design. As it is, there is no central focal point of the image. The viewer is left wondering what was the intent of the photograph.

Thanks in advance.
"tony cooper" wrote in message

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:48:41 -0500, "dvus"
wrote:

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote:

bolo wrote:

"dvus" wrote:

bolo wrote:

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???

Thanks in advance.

My stab at it:

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202][img= http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/45515/2000126686236964202_t h.jpg

(sorry about the 2 mile long url, it’s a freebie)

I could not see anything here. Thanks for the attempt, could you tell me what you did to fix it?

[please don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]
It’d be a lot easier to tell you if you could see it, but of course, like anything free, that image site doesn’t work very intuitively. Let me try another and I’ll tell you what I did. You’ll probably get better work from the pros in here anyway.

Wait, that url above is doubled up or something. Lemme try half of it… http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2000126686236964202 seems to work ok.

Actually devus, it looks great, now tell me what you did. I teach a beginning photoshop class, and i use these things you all tell me in my class.

Thanks again!

[*please* don’t top-post in here, it’s a pain to reformat]
Ok. I simply grabbed a chunk of the shutter/wall above the flare with the rectangular marquis, copied it and pasted it on top of the flare. I actually
forgot to feather it a little so I got those faint horizontal lines you can
see. The resolution of the original is pretty low, so you wouldn’t want to feather it more than a pixel or two. Then I used the clone tool to clean up
around the paste a little along with the dodge and burn tools at low settings to avoid over-fix.

The faint flare above the window was easy since there’s good image info within, the burn tool at low settings took that right out. I thought about masking it and using some adjustment like layers or darken/lighten but it’s
easier to avoid edge artifacts if you do it by hand.

I noticed the glare on the back of the fence was a bit much so I selected one area of it with the magic wand and then used Select/Similar to get the rest. The trick for me is to experiment with the tolerance of the wand since
it also adjusts the tolerance of the Select/Similar operation. (I think I used 16). I went into QuickMask mode to paint out some sections of the house
that got selected but I didn’t want to touch and then used the Burn tool to
calm down the bright highlights a little.

That’s pretty much it, if it were mine I’d adjust the Levels and bump up the
saturation slightly, but I’m assuming you have a higher resolution original
that you’re going to work on so I didn’t bother. However, keep in mind that
some of these guys in here are much more accomplished with Photoshop than I,
so you ought to wait and see if they have better advice. I’m just an amateur
that does it for fun.

Too bad you couldn’t change the composition.

—

Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

—

Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

"bolo" wrote in message

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???
Thanks in advance.

well the point it if you haven’t got it on the negative or original, that is , if the highlight is totally burnt to white
then it’s empty of info, no pixels
so as dvus did, this area has to be re-created
by cloning or cut and paste from another area
in some cases drawn in by hand

agree with Tony- composition is not good, it needs to be straightened out, that post in the center and the house so tilted makes me feel dizzy the grassy area needs to be darker and the rest a little better contrast maybe try two corrective curve layers with masks or just burn in the grass

it is too low res to work on

glad to see N.O. is still there to take pictures of and I enjoyed seeing the image for that reason
I have fond memories of the place

you are teaching photo students?

Several things about this picture. One, yes it sucks, but it was one of several that i took in that direction that has flare. Also, this was the very last pic i took before battery died. 🙁 It was almost a perfect day for this walk and taking some "snap shots". Used a lot of battery on Anne Rice homes…

Yes, N.O. is there, and this section did not seem to be affected by Katrina, one of the residents in the area told me they were without water for 6 weeks, so he just packed up and moved to Louisville until it came back on. As far as damage, well the areas that were hit the hardest where the ones that were pretty bad to start with (IMHO). SO it is hard to tell…

As far a my profession, actually i teach web page design and use photoshop, flash and illustrator for those purposes. Obviously I am not a photographer 🙂 I don’t use any of the afore mentioned programs enough to become very good at them. Teaching lower level courses, i find i do the same things over and over again.

"KatWoman" wrote in message

"bolo" wrote in message

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???
Thanks in advance.

well the point it if you haven’t got it on the negative or original, that is , if the highlight is totally burnt to white
then it’s empty of info, no pixels
so as dvus did, this area has to be re-created
by cloning or cut and paste from another area
in some cases drawn in by hand

agree with Tony- composition is not good, it needs to be straightened out, that post in the center and the house so tilted makes me feel dizzy the grassy area needs to be darker and the rest a little better contrast maybe try two corrective curve layers with masks or just burn in the grass
it is too low res to work on

glad to see N.O. is still there to take pictures of and I enjoyed seeing the image for that reason
I have fond memories of the place

you are teaching photo students?

let me clarify this statement – I do not teach web design. I am creatively retarded 🙂 I teach technical aspects of creating web pages – coding and supporting software….

"bolo" wrote in message

Several things about this picture. One, yes it sucks, but it was one of several that i took in that direction that has flare. Also, this was the very last pic i took before battery died. 🙁 It was almost a perfect day for this walk and taking some "snap shots". Used a lot of battery on Anne Rice homes…

Yes, N.O. is there, and this section did not seem to be affected by Katrina, one of the residents in the area told me they were without water for 6 weeks, so he just packed up and moved to Louisville until it came back on. As far as damage, well the areas that were hit the hardest where the ones that were pretty bad to start with (IMHO). SO it is hard to tell…

As far a my profession, actually i teach web page design and use photoshop, flash and illustrator for those purposes. Obviously I am not a photographer 🙂 I don’t use any of the afore mentioned programs enough to become very good at them. Teaching lower level courses, i find i do the same things over and over again.

"KatWoman" wrote in message

"bolo" wrote in message

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???

Thanks in advance.

well the point it if you haven’t got it on the negative or original, that is , if the highlight is totally burnt to white
then it’s empty of info, no pixels
so as dvus did, this area has to be re-created
by cloning or cut and paste from another area
in some cases drawn in by hand

agree with Tony- composition is not good, it needs to be straightened out, that post in the center and the house so tilted makes me feel dizzy the grassy area needs to be darker and the rest a little better contrast maybe try two corrective curve layers with masks or just burn in the grass

it is too low res to work on

glad to see N.O. is still there to take pictures of and I enjoyed seeing the image for that reason
I have fond memories of the place

you are teaching photo students?

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"KatWoman" wrote in message

"bolo" wrote in message

Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.

http://www.cadotonic.com/garden

I appreciate any help suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman, Colin???

Thanks in advance.

well the point it if you haven’t got it on the negative or original, that is , if the highlight is totally burnt to white
then it’s empty of info, no pixels
so as dvus did, this area has to be re-created
by cloning or cut and paste from another area
in some cases drawn in by hand

agree with Tony- composition is not good, it needs to be straightened out, that post in the center and the house so tilted makes me feel dizzy the grassy area needs to be darker and the rest a little better contrast maybe try two corrective curve layers with masks or just burn in the grass

it is too low res to work on

glad to see N.O. is still there to take pictures of and I enjoyed seeing the image for that reason
I have fond memories of the place

you are teaching photo students?

"bolo" wrote in message

Several things about this picture. One, yes it sucks, but it was one of several that i took in that direction that has flare. Also, this was the very last pic i took before battery died. 🙁 It was almost a perfect day for this walk and taking some "snap shots". Used a lot of battery on Anne Rice homes…

Yes, N.O. is there, and this section did not seem to be affected by Katrina, one of the residents in the area told me they were without water for 6 weeks, so he just packed up and moved to Louisville until it came back on. As far as damage, well the areas that were hit the hardest where the ones that were pretty bad to start with (IMHO). SO it is hard to tell…

As far a my profession, actually i teach web page design and use photoshop, flash and illustrator for those purposes. Obviously I am not a photographer 🙂 I don’t use any of the afore mentioned programs enough to become very good at them. Teaching lower level courses, i find i do the same things over and over again.

bolo" wrote in message
news:FJhAj.10$> let me clarify this
statement – I do not teach web design. I am creatively

retarded 🙂 I teach technical aspects of creating web pages – coding and supporting software….

please post at bottom of thread or it skews the order

I often see really poor quality photos and graphics on webpages

So many web designers are really clueless about proper preparation of images, most especially photos, and art and design basics, it is one of my pet peeves and I see a lot of it.
I am the opposite and can make the killa graphics but suck at the coding the pages part and intricacies and limitations of web language and formatting this is not meant to insult your personally but how can you teach design when you are not an artist?

In one case my husband took photos of a very fine home and island for an exclusive real estate company at huge expense to the client (rented helicopter, his fee and asst fee)
and whoever prepared them for the web made such lousy compressions and poor render of the orig colors they were unrecognizable.What a huge waste of money (at least wasted on us!) to pay for quality and still in the end the public and customers saw crap.

Nice job, dvus. I hope we’ll be hearing more from you.
—
Mike Russell – www.curvemeister.com

Mike Russell wrote:

Nice job, dvus. I hope we’ll be hearing more from you.

Believe me, if I could do the magic with Curves you do I would give up on so much use of Levels, Brightness/Contrast and a few others. I’ve tried, and all I can manage is a squiggly line in the Curves graph that doesn’t seem to accomplish what I want. So, one ends up using the other tools to acheive the same ends. But, thanks for the encouragement.

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dvus

"dvus" wrote:

Mike Russell wrote:

Nice job, dvus. I hope we’ll be hearing more from you.

Believe me, if I could do the magic with Curves you do I would give up on so much use of Levels, Brightness/Contrast and a few others. I’ve tried, and all I can manage is a squiggly line in the Curves graph that doesn’t seem to accomplish what I want. So, one ends up using the other tools to acheive the same ends. But, thanks for the encouragement.

There is no one magic tool for all problem, or different tool works better on some color/situation but worse on other. And that’s the reason why we have so many different tools, techniques to solve the similar problem.