nunubaby Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 My client wants these flowers to be pink. She tells me this AFTER I finish the setup - "oh you can just change the colour on your computer, right?" Do-able? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Gee, it might be tricky. First, can you see if you can process the raw file with NO clipping at the shadow end of the histogram? Presently the blue channel is badly clipped in the flowers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunubaby Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Thanks Damien, can you point me in the right direction for fixing this in RAW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 I don't understand the question. I just told you, it needs no clipping at the shadow end of the histogram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunubaby Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 I'm not sure how to get rid of the blue channel clipping. I've followed your raw workflow through and the blue channel is still badly clipped at the shadows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Whoa!!!! Crap!!! I just noticed that your file is Adobe RGB!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunubaby Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 You're absolutely right. Thank you. I've generally processed RAWs in Lightroom. Just switched to Camera Raw at your suggestion. Fixing this now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Ok, the clipping is still there - bummer. Never mind, it just means we have to take the harder route. It's still feasible. I need you to guide me on what colour pink you'd like - pale, medium, or really rich. Maybe if you could google "pink flowers" or something, and link me to a shade of pink you'd like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunubaby Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Pale pink please Damien. I know my client doesn't like bolder colours. When googling 'pale pink flowers' I'm certain she'd be thrilled with anything like that.https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pale+pink+flowers&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEhee80InPAhXBXBQKHVKjAzoQ_AUICCgB&biw=1920&bih=979 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Something like this colour? Be as critical as you like. If you want it a different shade, please don't hesitate to ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunubaby Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Yes, great. She'll love that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Yay! Ok, here's what the layers panel looks like: The setup is easy, but the masking is as tedious as hell. (That's why I didn't do much of it!) Let me take you through the steps: 1. Add a Channel Mixer layer, check the "Monochrome" checkbox, and enter 0% for the Red and Blue values, and +100% for the green value. This will turn the photo black-and-white. 2. Then add a Levels layer, and immediately clip it to the Channel Mixer layer. On the Red channel of the Levels layer, move the middle slider to 2.00. Then on the Green channel, move the middle slider to 0.85. (You can tweak these values to your taste, if you prefer a different shade of pink). At this point, the whole photo will be pale pink. 3. Click on the mask of the Channel Mixer layer and invert it to black. 4. Zoom way in, and choose a small 100% opacity white brush, and start the very tedious process of masking onto the flowers. This will take ages. Pour a drink to help you through. 5. Once you've finally finished masking, all the flowers will be pink. However, you'll see that the rug and baby will still have yellow cast on them from the original flower colour. So, drop the brush opacity to 10%, and enlarge the brush a bit, and start gently painting on those yellow casty areas to turn them into pink casty areas. This will also take a while. Here's why my mask looks like: See how there's the solid white area of the flowers, then the gentle painting for the casty areas around? 6. Finally, return to 100% opacity with the brush, and switch to black, then zoom in and check all the little green leaves. Your 10% painting might have started to turn the green leaves pink, or at least greyish. So you have to restore them to their proper green. Good luck! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunubaby Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 Thank you so much for your time, will give it a go today and report back! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunubaby Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 Just started the masking. It's acceptable to pour myself a gin at 10.44am right? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 I'd love to see how this turned out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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