Look at my PP

[Mrvile]

Ok I was out by the school and I took some pics...please critique my PP job. Used ArcSoft PhotoStudio.

Spider pre-PP
Spider post-PP

Dragonfly pre-PP
Dragonfly post-PP

None of them are cropped (I'll obviously crop them later) and they're both much clearer at actual size.

 

[funkymatt]

i dont see much of a difference with the spider, but good work with the dragonfly.

 

[cjgallen]

Your PP leaves much to be desired.

 

[Ilmater]

Originally posted by: cjgallen
Your PP leaves much to be desired.

Indeed. Firefly background is terribly pixellated.

 

[Dubb]

for chrissakes, when are people going to learn to lay off the fsking saturation.

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: Dubb
for chrissakes, when are people going to learn to lay off the fsking saturation.

true dat... its all about levels, use the sliders, make minute changes at a time

 

[Mrvile]

Well I wanna bring out the color of the insects but not the background...I just don't know how :disgust:

 

[PurdueRy]

OMG way to pump up the saturation too far. Everything looks fake! The Spider definitely looks better in the first pic.

(but I guess people did love their Digital Vibrance from Nvidia in the other thread....sad...)

 

[Mrvile]

I think the first pics look too...black and white...for lack of better description.

How about this for the spider?

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
I think the first pics look too...black and white...for lack of better description.

How about this for the spider?

Winnar...they look the same

 

[Mrvile]

Oh and btw, sorry for the grain in the photos...like I said it's much clearer in the real pic. I had to compress jpeg (?) to get the file size small enough for uploadability.

Anyway I'm most worried about the spider pic, I wanna use that for a print (the dragonfly pic doesn't matter). Anyone else like the third spider pic?

 

[Mrvile]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: Mrvile
I think the first pics look too...black and white...for lack of better description.

How about this for the spider?

Winnar...they look the same

It's cuz I replaced the second spider pic with this one.

 

[redgtxdi]

Actually, I'd probably take the first spider pic & simply sharpen (or USmask) to pull some more sharpness out of the body of the spider. I don't think that pic needs anything else.

And to all those......."Ooooh, don't sharpen pics", folks............there's a smart way to sharpen and a bad way to sharpen.........this one will benefit from a good sharpening!!!

Leave everything else on it alone.

 

[BooGiMaN]

Originally posted by: redgtxdi
Actually, I'd probably take the first spider pic & simply sharpen (or USmask) to pull some more sharpness out of the body of the spider. I don't think that pic needs anything else.

And to all those......."Ooooh, don't sharpen pics", folks............there's a smart way to sharpen and a bad way to sharpen.........this one will benefit from a good sharpening!!!

Leave everything else on it alone.

so your saying you want to sharpen his PP