Maybe desaturate it a bit to bring it back into gamut? You might even be able to do so selectively on the petals, to avoid stuffing up the rest of the photo.
Cheers, Dave > On Apr 3, 2016, at 11:41 AM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What do you do when the destination colorspace does not have the color you > need? > Let's say you have a photo, you look at the "soft proof" in LR (or in PS), > and you see that the "center-piece" color is way out of the destination > gamut. For example, I have the photo of this red flower > http://42graphy.org/misc/Flower_IR32063.jpg > In reality, that red is more toward orange. SRGB color space does not have > that color. I see how LR is going to change (you can see the result), and I > can change the color mapping (colorimetric or perceptual), but it is still > far from the "reality" (or what I think the reality is). > > I know that in some cases, especially with soft-proofing for printing, > adjustments of the curve (often brightening or darkening) can help. > Unfortunately, this portion of the gamut seems to be really far away from the > SRGB boundary, so small tweaking of highlights and/or shadows, or the > saturation or luminance of the red channel alone doesn't help. > Is there some trick here that I am missing that could help adjusting the > colors, or, essentially the best I can do is just leave with the conversion > LR (or PS) does? > Previously, I had a similar situation with the carrot-type orange. > > Any thoughts and suggestions? > > Also, - in this case, this conversion of the red makes the top petals blend > together, and I cannot seem to find the "knob" to enhance the separation. > > All comments are very welcome! > > Igor > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
