Hi all,
At first, sorry for my poor English, especially words about photography and Photoshop.
Recently I became interested in 8bf plugins. Tried lots of them. However, only 2 plugins are suitable for me and very helpful, the rest are just toys - you just play it around with one or two of your photos.
OK, they are perspective transformation and smartcurve. I use them on tons of photos.
Only after watching a Photoshop tutorial, I realized how useful smartcurve can be. Before this it's just another toy for me, LOL. Let me show you:
Only a small portion of your photos have good light. Quite some have grey mist. There are several methods to fix this in Photoshop, including tunnel and selective color.
Smartcurve does the same job as PS's tunnel, just it's more automated and faster, much lower computer requirement, if working with irfanview.
Steps to get back true original color and fix grey mist:
Press OK and go back to IrfanView. Use ctrl+Z and ctrl+J (undo and redo) to compare original photo and the result. If you're satisfied, save the changes.
That's it.
At first, sorry for my poor English, especially words about photography and Photoshop.
Recently I became interested in 8bf plugins. Tried lots of them. However, only 2 plugins are suitable for me and very helpful, the rest are just toys - you just play it around with one or two of your photos.
OK, they are perspective transformation and smartcurve. I use them on tons of photos.
Only after watching a Photoshop tutorial, I realized how useful smartcurve can be. Before this it's just another toy for me, LOL. Let me show you:
Only a small portion of your photos have good light. Quite some have grey mist. There are several methods to fix this in Photoshop, including tunnel and selective color.
Smartcurve does the same job as PS's tunnel, just it's more automated and faster, much lower computer requirement, if working with irfanview.
Steps to get back true original color and fix grey mist:
- Call up the smartcurve plugin;
- Drag the window to the upper left corner, then drag the lower down corner grabber to maximize the window, this way you can see the preview photo will be maximized;
- On the right hand, press Auto button, you can see three new lines appear in curve charts, which are red, green, and blue. Same as Photoshop's tunnel, but it's automatic ! Very convenient, saving at least nine mouse steps! Now, if the 3 lines (or at least one) are distinctively away from the black line, you'll get a good result, so just jump to the next step. On the other hand, if all 3 lines are too close to the black line, barely noticeable, you may want to try another tool: the shadow and highlight eye-droppers:
- Just move the mouse around in the preview area to find the darkest and lightest points - look at the curve chart, there'll be a point moving when you move mouse, you can also keep an eye on the RGB value at the upper right corner. Find and remember the darkest and lightest points in the photo, and mark them with the two eye-droppers.
- Now, add 1 or 2 points to the black curve line, do a contrast adjustment or make the whole photo brighter or darker, it depends on the photo and your purpose.(Rightclicking a point will delete that point.)
Press OK and go back to IrfanView. Use ctrl+Z and ctrl+J (undo and redo) to compare original photo and the result. If you're satisfied, save the changes.
That's it.
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