Pipe Product Shot

[Ryewolf]

This was one of 5 finished images I took of this pipe for a website.

The image as it came out of the camera.... I wasn't about it being off centre as it would eventually be cropped square.

First thing was to open it with Photomatix Pro and twiddle a bit using Contrast Optimiser to lift the darks and mid-tones

So that brought the mid tones up, I then used the Finishing Touch Tool to adjust the Lights and Highlights

The background still wasn't as white as I wanted it, so then I opened the tonemapped image in Paint Shop Pro 7 to further adjust the brightness and contrast

And finally cropped square and re-sized ready for the website

I could possibly have spent longer using a lighten rgb tool on the background, but I had 45 other products to do so I needed to keep the processing time down to a minimum.

[kev7d]

Nice one.  What is lighten RGB tool? Not heard of that. You should share the site link?  ??

[Ryewolf]

Thanks Kev. The Lighten RGB might be specific to PSP7, basically it's a retouch brush that lightens the rgb values of colours.

[ChrisLumix]

14 hours ago, Ryewolf said:

Thanks Kev. The Lighten RGB might be specific to PSP7, basically it's a retouch brush that lightens the rgb values of colours.

Is that what I'd know as Hue/Saturation 'lightness' slider?

[Ryewolf]

Possibly similar, but it doesn't apply it to the whole image, just where you click with the Retouch brush.

[ChrisLumix]

4 hours ago, Ryewolf said:

Possibly similar, but it doesn't apply it to the whole image, just where you click with the Retouch brush.

I just launched PSP9 (CS2) and it appears to have gone by then. Then again, I don't remember it being in PSP7 either, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? Is it an extension of the Healing tools?

[Ryewolf]

That's possibly why you couldn't find it, I use Paint Shop Pro, not Photoshop. It's basically a Retouch Brush that you can choose various modes, Darken/Lighten RGB, soften/sharpen, saturation Up/Down etc

[ChrisLumix]

6 minutes ago, Ryewolf said:

That's possibly why you couldn't find it, I use Paint Shop Pro, not Photoshop. It's basically a Retouch Brush that you can choose various modes, Darken/Lighten RGB, soften/sharpen, saturation Up/Down etc

Ah, you confused me with your PSP - which on my computer is an abbreviation for Photoshop

You could do similar things in Photoshop, but they're all different (brush) tools such as Blur/Sharpen, Saturate/Desat, Burn/Dodge, etc.