Yes, Peter, that's it! Ideal balance of contrast and detail. Jack
--- On Sun, 4/27/08, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: PESO -- Cattails III was [Re: PESO -- Cattails II was [Re: PESO] > (Cattails)] > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, April 27, 2008, 10:36 AM > Dave Savage suggested this. I ended up close to his > recommendation. > It's a lot closer to what I was looking for, still not > perfect though. > Maybe a few more tweaks or maybe a major layer job... > > http://www.mindspring.com/~distilfink/PESO%20--%20cattails3.html > > As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. > > David Savage wrote: > > I think somewhere between the 2 would look best. > > > > If you're using PS maybe try this: > > > > Open the original, than overlay v2 over it. Adjust > v2's blending mode > > to hard light & reduce the layer opacity to around > 35%. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dave > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:17 PM, P. J. Alling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> There were some thoughts that the contrast was too > low on the original > >> so I've played with it a bit. Now I think > it's actually too high. I > >> changed the color filtration on the conversion > and played with curves a > >> bit. I can't seem to reach a happy medium > here. Either it contrast is > >> too low or it snaps over to too high. Oh well > maybe I'll get some > >> decent feedback... > >> > >> > http://www.mindspring.com/~distilfink/PESO%20--%20cattails2.html > >> > >> P. J. Alling wrote: > >> > Nature is where you find it. > >> > > >> > > http://www.mindspring.com/~distilfink/PESO%20--%20cattails.html > >> > > >> > Equipment: Pentax *ist-Ds/smc Pentax M 85mm > f2.0 > >> > > > > > > > -- > Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... > -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

