HollyJo

Nevermind -- found my own answer. No 4k.

Hopefully last question. Is it better to get the HDR 4K version?

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1547779-REG/dell_27_u2720q_ultrasharp_4k.html

Just to confirm, is this 27" just as good? I currently have a 24" monitor and frequently wish it was just a bit bigger. 

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1457544-REG/dell_ultrasharp_u2719d_27_16_9.html

Thanks! Are there any other monitors that are great too? Don't mind spending more if it will last a long time.

Hi Brian,

I am building a new computer this week and would like to upgrade my monitor as well. I've looked through the FB forum and the first couple pages here and the only suggested monitor I came across was this one:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1457543-REG/dell_u2419h_ultrasharp_24_16_9.html

Is this the only one you recommend? Would appreciate any suggestions I can check out and hopefully order one soon. 

Cheers!

So I Googled some tutorials and looked through Google Images and that seems very much like the glow I see so often. 

Is this a good way to attempt it? Or do you have a better way?
 

https://iceland-photo-tours.com/articles/photography-techniques/the-orton-effect-explained

Like here. Tons of different colors, all super vibrant.

https://www.noellemirabella.com/your-everything?lightbox=dataItem-k5burua5

lol, I'm not particularly drawn to the way the people end up, but there are times I really want more punchy color, and she has a ton of it. All I know to do is using AL, which is a painstaking process for every color, because too much saturation creates clipping.

I was browsing and saw an older post about Noelle Mirabella that didn't end up going anywhere. I realize that a massive part of her photos is styling, lens choice, lighting and location, but as far as the post-processing goes, how does she get the super rich and vibrant colors? And it looks like a lot of D&B as well? Scrolling back to the beginning of her portfolio, I see the colors weren't always so punchy, but is she really "hand-painting" every colored element in a photo? Or is there a tool and sliders to expedite the process?

https://www.noellemirabella.com/your-everything

Oh, I missed that monochrome was checked and the blending mode changed to soft light. So, if there was more shadowing, I  may not need as much of the blue slider?

Did you make the gradient, or is the one you used that first pre-made one in the "oranges" category of gradients?

TY! Very helpful. So in moving the blue channel slider toward the white end, is that shifting the yellows toward blue? I assume this is specific to this photo, or will it always be a blue channel shift for this effect?

As for the short of "glow" effect on the skin... D&B?

Does this link from IG work for you?

Alright, I'm on my phone so will look for a website or something similar later when using a computer.

That's odd. It embedded a link to her business FB page. From my view:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/taralesher/permalink/3952184821465286/

Are you able to view this since it is a FB group? I see so many photos like this but I don't even know how to describe them or how to approach achieving this look.

Thanks for the feedback, Brian! I appreciate you taking the time!

I ended up biting the bullet and going for it. Calibrated today and just posted my first WB check for Damien, so fingers crossed. 

I haven't owned a laptop in well over a decade. What do people do nowadays to share their images across multiple devices? We don't own Apple anything but my recently installed PS here on the laptop is prompting me to save to the Adobe cloud. Is that the way to go? My desktop is what backs-up regularly and I'd ideally like to load my photos to the desktop but then access them from the laptop. I've just used Dropbox for the moment but it is slow and cumbersome. Advice on best cloud setup?

Hi Brian, I've read through here often to try to figure out what I need to know when choosing a laptop but it's honestly all Greek to me and constantly changing. I just wanna run Photoshop and waste time reading celebrity gossip and shopping on Amazon on a screen that's not too small. Would this do the trick? I'm a bit wary of the touchscreen, flip around thing. Seems like a potential "jack of all trades but master of none" situation.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-spectre-x360-2-in-1-15-6-4k-ultra-hd-touch-screen-laptop-intel-core-i7-16gb-memory-512gb-ssd-32gb-optane-dark-ash-silver-sandblasted-anodized-finish/6364582.p?skuId=6364582

Thanks so much! If it's not gonna make the cut do you have any rec's under $1500?

Please say I can scrape by with this one.  I did a dumb, dumb thing and didn't have my shutter speed quite high enough for my long lens I switched to.

I struggled with this portrait orientation cropping for an hour last night too. It has only happened to me in the last week or so. The photos load super small and extremely grainy on FB. What ultimately worked for me was going back to the original master file, redoing the crop, and then for saving I went to File>Export>Save For Web and resized to 2048 on the long side there and reduced the quality to get it under <1M. When I went to Image>Image Size to resize and Save For Web afterwards I was getting the terribly pixelated images. I don't understand why it worked differently but I did get different results. 

I saw a tutorial that created a solid color layer with a warm peachy tone, changed the blend mode to multiply and inverted the mask, and then painted it on the background to enhance the warm areas with a lowish opacity brush to create a similar effect to the one you posted. 

7 hours ago, Damien Symonds said:

Um ... for people who are reading this, Holly hasn't given you the back story.  She would like the blue tarp disguised in the background, and the two tones of grass changed to one tone.

This is her SOOR, she hasn't commenced her Levels editing yet.

Apologies for that. I was rushing.

Wow, thanks for breaking it down for me. I'm going to leave as is for now and perhaps come back to it some other day when I have more time to dedicate to experimenting.

Thanks D!