Igor, I don't have PS and I don't do computational editing (if such a thing exists).
In fact, as you can see easily, it was shot against the light and thus came out with very dark darks and very bright brights. Originally, I edited it a bit and thought that was it. Then, I realized, I wanted to see more of the very dark darks, so I brightened them up a bit. Of course, m43 has small sensor that is noisier than its bigger and more modern siblings. But somehow I don't care too much about it. So, I kept on editing, trying to brighten up the darks and eventually I arrived at this idea - make it look as if it was not a photograph, but rather a pencil drawing - hence the title. Nowadays, my workflow is like this: * Import to LightRoom and perform basic keywording/sorting and basic editing, such as straightening up or cropping. * Whatever I like, I would then edit in ColorEfex Pro from Nik plugins collection. I have that favorite recipe of mine that basically includes all the filters that I tend to use. Then I would mix and match to taste. Admittedly, recently I am finding it great fun playing with film simulation presets. * Sometimes, I would edit in ColorEfex Pro specifically with the idea in mind to continue towards b/w conversion. Then, sometimes the colors and contrast becomes rather unnatural. Thus, I'd take the edited file and feed it directly to SilverEfex Pro, where I would edit it some more, again completely to taste. There, I also like film simulation presets and I would also play with contrast, details, etc. * Back in LightRoom I might edit it a bit more, perhaps apply a bit of Noise Reduction if my editing is more heavy in that department. * And finally export and upload. Boris On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 12:47 AM Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That's a great image! > > I am just curious if it was just finding the right color mapping/mixing, > or you also did something like "find the edge" filter in PS, > which is essentially close to what is mathematically taking the 1st > derivative of the multi-dimensional function (or 3-D surface in > some colors), and overlaying it with the original image. > > > Igor > > > On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 8:29 AM Boris Liberman wrote: > > > It turns out that finding the desired b/w rendering can be real fun... > > > > Have a click: > > https://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2019/02/2019-07-like-pencil-sketch.html > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > Boris > > -- > 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. > -- Boris -- 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.
