Photoshop CS and curves

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Hi,

i was playing arround in photoshop and came up with this.

the original

img0740bb9.jpg


and after some playing about with curves.

img0740copywn3.jpg


What do you think about the differents.
 
about the difference! ;)

Looks great, BUT, is that the effect you were after?

curves can most certianly be useful, if you master curves, your well on your way of learning how to use Photoshop! :)

Looks good imo! :)
 
see, personally, if i wanted to bring out the blues in the water, i'd have first played iwth the blue curves, then a little of the red, to bring out the sand, then overall tweeked the whole RGB to get the desired 'bright/dull/polarised' effect.
like this:

curves.jpg


Greg
 
Greg said:
about the difference! ;)

Looks great, BUT, is that the effect you were after?

curves can most certianly be useful, if you master curves, your well on your way of learning how to use Photoshop! :)

Looks good imo! :)

no i was just playing about with it to see what it could do.

but after playing it look pretty good to me. may even play a little more and get it printed. but we will see.
 
I dislike curves, only subtle changes every look any good to me. But i do like blue water and white sand!
sandfl0.jpg
 
gord said:
I dislike curves, only subtle changes every look any good to me. But i do like blue water and white sand!
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/7681/sandfl0.jpg[/I][/QUOTE]

exactly, everyone has a different use for it.

I like it for making the sureal polarised looking photo effects! (if thats what they are?!)
 
I became more impressed as I scrolled down the page, that first one is good, nevermind the effect you're after, sometimes it's good to experiment not knowing what's going to happen.

Was that done with curves alone gord? This was my attempt to copy:

img0740bb9.jpg


I really need to figure out curves properly, it seems like they could be a rather useful feature...
 
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