Thanks, Moose. I have printed that out and will study it. I assume you
are doing this in Photoshop? Can you recommend any books or tutorials to
learn this stuff? I don't even know where to start.
Tina
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> --
> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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