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tfttf131 - Summer Contrasts

Written by Administrator on June 16th, 2006

Summer, sunshine, extreme contrasts.. and our digital cameras having a really hard time to cope with this enormous dynamic range. Learn how to get the most out of your high contrast summer images.



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  1. thom kraus says:
    June 18, 2006 at 2:51 pm

    Hi Chris.
    Excellent show. I had the same problem only the other way around. I was in a hotel room in CZ and the flowers on the window sill as well as the fountain in the park across the street were in full sunshine. I wanted the picture with details of the window curtains ‘inside’ the room which was not in direct sunlight. With your tips I will get the details like I wanted. Thanks again!

  2. Bill says:
    June 22, 2006 at 11:14 pm

    Hi Chris
    Digital Image Mover is an excellent tool thanks keep up the great work.

  3. Yann says:
    June 23, 2006 at 6:14 am

    The result is impressive, but I’m really curious to see the shape of the curve you used for this. Could make a worthy addition.

  4. Administrator says:
    June 23, 2006 at 12:46 pm

    Hi Yann,

    it was basically a "normal" bell curve, e.g. just the middle tones pulled up. The mask prevented the bright parts to be affected by that change.

  5. Jim Kendall says:
    July 3, 2006 at 1:25 am

    Chris,

    Love the show. Listen to podcast each weekend. I almost always learn something from your shows. I was very interested in trying the Summer Constrasts procedures from tfttf131 but try as I might, I could not get the "undocumented keystroke shortcut" to work with Photoshope CS and my Macintosh using OS 10.4.7. I think I tried all possible combinations of Apple (Command), Option, Control, and Shift with the "~" (tilde) key and no selection was created. Did you ever figure out or hear what the Mac keystroke combination was?

  6. Jim Kendall says:
    July 3, 2006 at 1:52 am

    Chris, after my comment of minutes ago, I discovered both the shortcut and the solution to why the "Select Highlight Values" undocumented shortcut did not work in CS on a Mac. The answer is documented by Adobe at: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331722.html and the keyboard shortcut is Apple + Option + ` (no need to add Shift key as that only changes the ` character to the ~ (tilde). Both work equally on the Mac.

    Thanks again for a great show. Keep up the excellent work.

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