Shadow/highlight function in cs

[mrdinh]

I get very washed out images when I use this. What is the best way to correct it’‚’‚…‚’‚‚¦give it more punch?

thanks

[JCW3]

It could be the extent your using them. I would recommend running levels once you get done to adjust the tones. Many times images with get a flat or washed out looking when doing functions such as the one your working with.

Hope this helps. But if you could a before/after would help so we can see what extent your try to change the image, and the out come.

[mrdinh]

original unedited...slightly sharpened

this next one is high/shad filter applied with the default settings ie. at 50%



doesn't it look flat...can you fix it and let me know what you did?...to the original image of course

[JCW3]

Not really sure what the effect your going for. The orginal image seemed to have a slight green tone and what I feel was fairly bright. Your second image which was the edited version seems to be really bright and had a fairly noticable yellow tone.

Many times when running controls such as the one you ran, the skin tones and colors get blown way out of color. I usually try to focus with the skin tones and then try to work the image from there.

With not knowing or ever seeing any of these people, I have no idea what there true skin tones are, but I tride to take a guess. I probably went a little darker than they are, but I have always been a fan of that. Some people often state I over saturate, but again its all personal choice.

The image showed a fair amount of noise and seemed over sharpened. With that I ran it through Neat Image to remove noise and sharpen marks. Once completed I ran levels to bring out the true color or the subjects (or what I thought was the right colors) and darken background to allow subjects to stand out. After that I ran a second layer to soften the background and reduce to sharpeness and noise marks. Added a white frame and saved....

Total time was about 3 minutes. Again I am not sure what your trying to do. I mostly tried to just remove the noise, bring colors back to life, and soften to cover blimish marks.

What is your purpose in running the high/shad filter? This is my edit, not sure if its what your looking for. If your looking for something differant let me know I will see what I can do. Also what editing program are you using?

http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/s...sort=1&cat=500