ntheni
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I think the missing part is what bro asthio88 said about my photo lacking of the colour. Will try to play on the vibrance & saturation
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I think the missing part is what bro asthio88 said about my photo lacking of the colour. Will try to play on the vibrance & saturation
ntheni
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The remaining duck meat can be choose to cook Fried Rice, Noodle or with Bean sprouts.
For me the Fried Rice tasted better
Roasted Duck Fried Rice
Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck (Paragon)
i quite like the photo.
asthio88
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Looking great, ntheni :thumbsup: Love your home-cooked mee goreng :heart:, one of my favorite dish.
I do understand over-saturating will make the photos kinda 'fake' and that's why you must know when (or where) to stop. I like the main subjects of my photos have that kinda 'punch' and stand out from the rest (be it the color, contrast or sharpness).
The problem with using saturation slider is it adjusts all the pixels in the image, both those lacking and already highly saturated thus making the image 'weird'. Of course you can mask out (or reduce the opacity) of the affected (over-saturated) areas. If you are using CS5, you can use the vibrance slider (adjusts only area lacking in saturation) instead. Even thn, I still mask out (especially the background and non-main subject). You can also check on the clarity slider (affects the contrast in midtones).
I do understand over-saturating will make the photos kinda 'fake' and that's why you must know when (or where) to stop. I like the main subjects of my photos have that kinda 'punch' and stand out from the rest (be it the color, contrast or sharpness).
The problem with using saturation slider is it adjusts all the pixels in the image, both those lacking and already highly saturated thus making the image 'weird'. Of course you can mask out (or reduce the opacity) of the affected (over-saturated) areas. If you are using CS5, you can use the vibrance slider (adjusts only area lacking in saturation) instead. Even thn, I still mask out (especially the background and non-main subject). You can also check on the clarity slider (affects the contrast in midtones).
ntheni
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ntheni
Senior Member
Looking great, ntheni :thumbsup: Love your home-cooked mee goreng :heart:, one of my favorite dish.
I do understand over-saturating will make the photos kinda 'fake' and that's why you must know when (or where) to stop. I like the main subjects of my photos have that kinda 'punch' and stand out from the rest (be it the color, contrast or sharpness).
The problem with using saturation slider is it adjusts all the pixels in the image, both those lacking and already highly saturated thus making the image 'weird'. Of course you can mask out (or reduce the opacity) of the affected (over-saturated) areas. If you are using CS5, you can use the vibrance slider (adjusts only area lacking in saturation) instead. Even thn, I still mask out (especially the background and non-main subject). You can also check on the clarity slider (affects the contrast in midtones).
Ya I slide lower look plain slide too much look fake haha
I using CS5, now I shall look into this saturation thing and the masking you talking about but everything look so "chin"...
Going to check out the net for more info. Thanks for the comment!!
Ntheni and Asthio88, Selective Saturation/De-Saturation can be done as follows :
first, Create a new layer with Hue/Saturation, then :
1) Select the color that you want to edit. It doesn't matter if the color is not displayed in the pull down menu, the PS will select for you.
2) Use the eye dropper to click on the color that you want to edit.
3) These two horizontal color bars will display with a default color range, drag to make this range as narrower as possible; the default range is
too wide that it may include the pink and orange color.
4) Now you can Sat/De-Sat the selected color, make sure any color in the closer color range are not affected, use -ve eye dropper to remove it they do.
I have used this approach to slightly De-Sat the chicken wings.
Before :
After :
first, Create a new layer with Hue/Saturation, then :
1) Select the color that you want to edit. It doesn't matter if the color is not displayed in the pull down menu, the PS will select for you.
2) Use the eye dropper to click on the color that you want to edit.
3) These two horizontal color bars will display with a default color range, drag to make this range as narrower as possible; the default range is
too wide that it may include the pink and orange color.
4) Now you can Sat/De-Sat the selected color, make sure any color in the closer color range are not affected, use -ve eye dropper to remove it they do.
I have used this approach to slightly De-Sat the chicken wings.
Before :
After :
asthio88
Senior Member
Ntheni and Asthio88, Selective Saturation/De-Saturation can be done as follows :
first, Create a new layer with Hue/Saturation, then :
1) Select the color that you want to edit. It doesn't matter if the color is not displayed in the pull down menu, the PS will select for you.
2) Use the eye dropper to click on the color that you want to edit.
3) These two horizontal color bars will display with a default color range, drag to make this range as narrower as possible; the default range is
too wide that it may include the pink and orange color.
4) Now you can Sat/De-Sat the selected color, make sure any color in the closer color range are not affected, use -ve eye dropper to remove it they do.
I have used this approach to slightly De-Sat the chicken wings.
Before :
After :
Hi kutten, thanks for sharing. I don't use the Hue/Saturation layer much, I prefer the Vibrance and Color Balance.
Maybe it's just me, I do like my subjects a tad over-exposed + extra vibrance which sometimes may result in (very) slight color cast. I usually leave it w/o correction as I find (more often thn not) it makes the food more attractive. Personally, I prefer the before image too ;p
Have a nice weekend
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