On Jan 20, 2012, at 3:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> On Jan 20, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> >>>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>>> >>>>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Kenneth Waller wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I don't know, but it would seem there are copyright issues in what >>>>>>> she's doing. >>>>>> >>>>>> Quite Obviously, a lot of skill and artistic ability is required to >>>>>> achieve the >>>>>> results she's accomplished. >>>>> >>>>> Nope. It's very easy to do this stuff with recent versions of >>>>> Photoshop. >>>> >>>> It's easy to add color, but not with the exactitude and attention to >>>> tonality, shading and detail with which she has done it. >>> >>> It's *much* easier than you think. >> >> I'm not buying it. She didn't just paint over a BW in photoshop, > > Of course not. That's not how you do it. > >> she replaced all the various grays with color elements of different tonal >> values. >> Look at the color detail she created in the Times Square buildings. >> Not easy by any stretch of the imagination. > > Layers. Displacement masks. Blend modes. > Not basic stuff, but not rocket science either - all covered in my > introductory Photoshop class. > It's really no big deal.
I'll send you a highly detailed BW and you colorize it with that level of skill and precision. Then I'll believe it's not big deal. But my eyes and my own experience say otherwise. I would guess there are at least 5,000 different coloration tasks involved in that Times Square photo, and the final result has to be convincing. A big deal. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
