On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. ―John >> Milton, Paradise Lost >> >> http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/I00001DukGx1AsRs >> >> NSFW, but really shouldn't need that label. Glamour it ain't. > > > Very nice. I wish the dark part of the background were darker so that > Dorrie stood out better against it. Is there any way you could use the > luminance slider to to increase the contrast between her and the background?
My standard way to do that is in Photoshop: add a Curves layer; select the background and create a layer mask; adjust curves to suit. In fact I did that already to push the floor and the rolled-up bottom of the grey seamless in the background into darkness. The other way to do it is using the selective adjustment points in Silver Efex Pro when doing the b&w conversion. That tool is amazing because it acts like an auto-mask and lets you work on major features in the image and alter contrast, change the luminance, pick out (amplify) more detail, etc. But I judged the background to be dark enough for my taste. I like for a little background texture and variation to be left rather than push it into pure black. Looks a little less jarring to my eye that way. Thanks, Larry. -- -bmw -- 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.
