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Hi there,

Didn't have a very good day with shooting insects today so I thought I'd go and edit some of my older RAW images for something to do...

I recently got Fred Miranda's 'Digital Velvia' action for photoshop... Do you think this is overdone?



My original image:



Paul

I'd say half and half.

I like the saturation in the ground / background, but the tiger looks more like a fuzzy tiger toy and less like a tiger.

I prefer the original

Just a little my settings are

Intensity 14%
Contrast 2
Smart Col none
No Neutralize
No Warm Col
Dynamic Range level 2

Nnnnsic wrote:I'd say half and half.

I like the saturation in the ground / background, but the tiger looks more like a fuzzy tiger toy and less like a tiger.

Haha wow, I'm the opposite! I actually like the tiger more now, but find the increased saturation in the background more of a distraction. YMMV.

I find it a little too much. Maybe somewhere in between.

I like the first one, I like the tiger and the background (just to be different).

A little too saturated but i think it has a lot of potential. Can you tone it down a little bit? Especially on the two front paws.

G'day Paul,
The extra sat might be a touch strong for me, especially as the whiskers seem to be going purple and the background is a smidge distracting for me... Hmm I think his tail must be cold too, I think it's going a bit blue There seems a hint of these colours in the original though.

Maybe if the extra sat was just on the tiger, and perhaps darken the background stuff a smidge so the focus is more centred on the pussy-cat? Might also consider cropping out the tree trunk (if that's what it is?) that's protruding into the right of frame maybe?

Great shot by the way!

Seems like most think it's a little overdone

Thanks for the suggestions... will give them a go when I get a chance

Paul

I'm with mattC paul somewhere in between would have been more effective for me. It's always such a subjective thing though. Nice capture maybe having the tiger look straight down the barrel could have produced more impact. I am also thinking that the original with just a little tweak of the curves to get that gentle 's' bend just to get a little 'pop' in contrast and bring it to life.
But hell what do I know!
marco

Too saturated for me. I prefer the original because the less saturated look suits the border more.

Half and half dont mind both
J

I find even the original a liitle too over-saturated. This image might look better B&W?

I have a bias towards saturation and colour. But, the PP version is a bit too saturated. If I was to give a figure, maybe a 20% reduction would be cool.

Paul I use that plug-in all the time. I find it does funny things to yellow and greens, they come up too bright. So after making my images saturated like yours, I go into photoshop>image>adjustments>selective color and choose "yellow" and play around with things there. Especially the magenta slidy thing, I move it to the right, and adjust the others a little too. That seems to correct the yellows and bright greens. Adding the dynamic range and a little contrast with that plugin usually improves the image a lot, you can see when you go back and look how it was in the history pane. Try playing with the yellow channel in images>adjustments>selective color and see what you can learn there.

Can I suggest Cyan +21, Magenta +6, Yellow - 48, and black +5, in the yellow channel?

Then choose the "Neutrals" channel, set cyan to -9, magenta -9, yellow -10 and black +10. You should then have an image of vivid colours, but not garish. You can try reducing shadows and adding a bit of contrast.

Or adjust the levels how you like, just experiment. But Fred's plugin is a good start to get a better dynamic range.