Darn....spots

I do not like developing images in LR but do like the "Visualize Spots" feature. Is it possible to do something similar in PS-CC to help find dust spots? I have used a level layer to create a temp high contrast view, cleaned up the original then deleted that level layer. Just wondered if there was a way to replicate what Lightroom is doing with "Visualize Spots"?

Thanks for any suggestions!

I was doing a restoration project for the community center that i work for, But I got an issue with the lighter spots in the surrounded area. I planed to make a selection of the areas, use hue/ saturation to desaturate and then equal the tones between light and dark making an adjustment dodge and burn layers. But I think there are other methods as well which can solve this issue. You can download the untouched original version of the pic from the link and feel welcome to give a try whit your versions and suggestions of this project.

I will appreciate your opinion and help.

Here is my work in progress and the issue:


Here is a link to the original image:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_K7...TU0/edit?pli=1

P.S the image represent an reproduction of women harvesters, who sing while working, wearing a traditional Bulgarian clothing My progress till now is to do some healing using spot healing tool and stamp tool.

Hi,

I need suggestions on the best way to clean up this flower photo. I'm referring to the brown spots and streaks at the top and inside of the petals. (Click on it for larger detail.)

Thanks for any tips.

ginger

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I tried to make the hair darker and more saturated. I made it look all cartoonish. I was trying to get rid of a little imperfections.
Request:

Basically can you try to make it look like mine but more realistic? Do you see those grey spots on mine, I tried to get rid of those but everytime i tried to remove them it made the picture more cartoonish
(Dont use mine because it looks cartoonish)
-Thank you

Source : http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=475243

I'm freelancer, and I'm working on jewelry retouch.
I wish to reach high level in this field, but I see all you tube lessons in this field and some from Lynda sit, but still can't find all I needs.
So I need your help in 2 important things:
First and fast:
How can I retouch diamond and keep it pop up and realistic , when I make sharpen ( smart or un_sharp mask ) the diamond become bluer and fade As you see in the image I have attached , I know the source photo not good, but this is the challenge, many client give me bad photos to make it WOW


Second: I need advanced free courses or lessons , to lean me how can I make advanced level jewlery retouch.

I wish I find some one help me here as I'm new and really need help badly.

Thank you very much

hello.i'm looking for the most accurate color selection method in photoshop for L,a,b color mode. what i want to achieve is to know the values for L,a and b that would let me enter those values to excel file which will tell me which shade is the closest. so those shaders values are the most important. thebestcpu said:
if you use a PS tool that uses the tolerance option, it has inherent limitations as such a tool selects on an RGB math equation that do not exactly reflect what you see with you eyes (e.g. it is color data based not luminosity based. That means the blue component of RGB in selecting an area gets too much weight.


so which tool works well on Lab color mode?
how would you get the Lab values from those shaders to be accurate? the tooth neck part is the most intense color because of thickness while the edge is the most transparent.
1) should i wand select the whole shader (without white blow out spots) and filter -> average?
2) should i pick the color from 1/2 or 1/3 height? maybe i should draw a horizontal line and select 1 point for each shader in the middle of it's long axis?
look at D3 and D4 how short color range it is.
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this photo should be taken with gray card to set the white balance correctly.

Hi everyone,

I have a question about cleaning up a scan of an old blueprint. These prints are almost 100 years old and I am working on some artwork for a renovation project. The scans can be found here and here (sorry for the links - the files were too big). I would like to clean one of these up enough in Photoshop to save it, place it in Illustrator, and effectively use LiveTrace. I have not been able to clean the scan up enough to do this, though. Can anyone walk me through this?

Thanks,

~wb

Just done a substantial amount of work on a particular project which called for a PDF file.
No probs...File > Save As > Sweet as...
Back to original PSD file...
Edit...
Edit...
Save...
Edit...
Edit...
Save...Hang on!
Why is photoshop saving as PDF?
Save As...(PSD)
Bam!
All Layers gone.
One flattened PSD file.
Thanks Adobe....NOT!

I read the warning about saving as PDF too......it said it CAN change the Save As settings in the Save As dialog...
...Didn't say it bloody well would!

Why does it do that? Why change the settings? Just what is Adobe on? Can I have some? Please.

Lesson learnt on that one....but what a stoooooopid thing to do!

Regards.
MrAngry.

Hi!
I have a dilemma with a high resolution picture that I want to use on a large screen. The problem is the screen has a low resolution which seem to distort the picture sometimes. Also I would like to zoom in the picture.

The monitor is a 47 inch HP LD4720tm sporting a 1,920 by 1,080 resolution. So the resoultion is like an ordinary desktop monitor but the size is more than double that. In other words, the pixel density (ppi) is much smaller.

The picture is of a clock. Size is about 670X670 pixels. I cropped out this clock from a larger 12MP Raw format Nikon picture. The cropped out clock looks something like this (my real image is copyright protected but this is very similar with 700x644px):


(http://www.stanleylondon.com/ClockShipsBellSml1.jpg )

On the screen this picture should take up a fixed size of 170X170 pixels (ie about 10% of the monitor).

The first way I did this was to simply in Photoshop Elements save the 670X670 picture as a png and with dimensions 170X170 pixels. ("Save for web" to get it as small in size as possible and chose png and 170X170). Then I put the 170X170 pic on the background canvas. It looks very nice. However, when I zoomed in the numbers and other details look very jagged or blurry.

So now I tried with the larger resolution 670X670px. I put this on the background too, and as it should only take up 170X170px, I clicked it and dragged to resize it. But this picture looks much worse than the 170X170 pic. I suppose the 170X170 pic perfectly fits the 170X170 space while the 670X670px is distorted. I mean, for the 170X170 pic there will be one pixel for each monitor point. When I do the exact same comparison on a 21 inch 1920X1080 monitor they look equally good, so it must be due to the low pixel density of the 48 inch monitor where the human eye can see each pixel.

However, now when I zoom in the details for the 670X670px were clearly visible.

I tried a few other resoultions like 360X360 and 270X270 (I resized the 670X670 pic to these sizes) and both png and jpeg. They also looked worse in normal view but of course in zoomed view they displayed more details than the 170X170 pic.

My dilemma now is how to get an image that will look good both when zoomed in and when in 100% zoom (normal view) on this large screen. Is there a way to do this. Eg like resizing to a resolution larger than 170X170 that will also look good in normal view.

Thanks.

Hi! I'm new! I'm creating a composite image of 7 faces. They are each on a different 'Normal' layer. I want them to all be represented equally but the top layers are more prominent than the bottom. How much do I have to adjust the opacity levels to change this?

I know I can use 'multiply' to achieve this effect but I have to do it using 'normal'.

Any Advice?

Thanks