On 5/26/2016 4:10 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
How did you do that??!!
On 5/26/2016 4:23 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
Quite an impressive amount of work on that shot!
Quality, not quantity! ;-)
You fixed the most offending volume anamorphosis issue as well as moving the
apparent focal plane.
Wish my vol anamorphosis correction plug-in had a "Moose option."
You . . . have a plug-in?*
Limited options,
On 5/26/2016 4:25 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
I want a Moose button for corrections!
Thanks, guys!
It's all about tools and masks. I know, I know, LR is the be and end all -
except ---
Blur background--
1. New Layer copy
2. Select foreground
3. Delete Key, leaving only the background on that layer
4. Invert Selection, CTRL-Shift-I
5. Leaving the selection on, Filters=>Blur=>Gaussian Blur, 1.0 (Amount varies
widely with subject and image size.)
6. Convert selection to layer mask (rectangle with dark circle in center icon,
on bottom of Layer palette)
Anamorphosis --
1. New Layer copy
2. Filter=>Lens Correction=>Custom Tab=>Geometric Correction, -9
3. Create mask, as in 6, above.
4. CTRL-I turns the mask all black, invisible.
5. Use white brush to paint in the area wanted, black to correct/undo.
Moving focus forward, "Sharpening" --
I use Focus Magic, a deconvolution tool, USM should do a decent job, I suppose, if you know what you are doing with it,
which I don't anymore.
I created four FM layers, of different amounts, and masked by selection and painting to get the right amount in the
right places.
I know the first step took less time to do than to describe; the second maybe a few moments longer. Focusing was
probably the longest. Her face is particularly tricky, unevenly in focus to start with, then (un)distortion tends to
cause un-sharpness, so I used 2-3 different amounts on different parts. The guy on the left is two levels, more on face,
less on shirt and hands, none on pants.
(Some of this stuff I might do reversed, such as invert the selection on the newly blurred layer, then apply as a mask
to a copy of the main layer above the blur. Result looks the same, but it can make subsequent steps easier.)
Pretty straightforward stuff, at least if you were me. ;-) But, really nothing
particularly tricky, or time consuming.
Nuanced Layers Moose
* Cribbed and modified from Stan Freberg's "United States of America, Part I"
And BTW, Vincent Oliver at Photo-i convinced me that conventional correction tools are at least as capable as the DxO
thingie.
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What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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