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Phinal Edit Georgetown


	Phinal Edit Georgetown I started over and then applied a gradient. Beth Spencer

Beth Spencer

I started over with this one and then applied a gradient, with the help of Dale's tutorial... Thanks Dale.
I was not on here last week I had so much stuff going on. I got to go with Jim Clark for 3days when he had a seminar up here. Then I had to work and catch up around here. It was a blast and I learned a lot. Hopefully, I will get some pictures up soon.
I am planning on upgrading my windows from XP to 7 this week and hope it will not be a major disaster..
Anyway now I plan on catching up here.

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October 14, 2012

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Beth I just need to be blunt here. This edit is a step backward from the original posts as I remember them. This is dark and muddy and the lighting in the windows has a gray cast that does not look good or natural as that is the light source for the shot. I would toss this and go back to your prior original or one of the edits that you liked in that thread.

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October 14, 2012

Stephen Shoff

Yeah, I don't care too much for the over saturation and blocked up colors either. I have a hard time with these images with bright, high contrast colors. there just isn't much latitude in the adjustments you can make.

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October 14, 2012

Jeff E Jensen

Yup, I agree with the guys, the previous version was better.

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October 14, 2012

Dale Hardin

It's unanimous Beth. The other version was better. You may have misunderstood the tutorial because I was suggesting you only use the gradient on the sky, not the entire image.

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October 14, 2012

Aimee C. Eisaman

Me too...not sure what happened, but I recall the other versions looking better. This has a muddy unnatural appearance to it. Sorry! I had really liked one of your last versions.

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October 14, 2012

Beth Spencer


	Last try I went back to the last one in the thread and added the gradient. I don't know what I was doing but everytime I tried to do the gradient on a layer mask it wouldn't work, so I just used a different layer. I am sure it is some simple step I am missing. Beth Spencer

I went back to the last one in the original thread. Dale I am missing something in the process, because I could not get it to work with a layer mask or on the levels adjustment mask. Thanks for the honesty.

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October 14, 2012

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