Joel thank you for creating these series of webinars to accompany your panel. Before discovering your workflow and panels, I had spent two years searching and studying modern black and white photography resources trying to find the tools I needed to execute my vision for my photos. Your panel and teaching has given me those tools and a greater understanding of the principles underlying black and white fine art photography.
I have a question if possible, I have a big interest, I noticed during tutorial that In the menus Load Selection and Save selection you have different colors for the panels title fill and also for the out line. How can I change these colors? Many thanks in advance. Also I would like to mention that you are doing an amazing work.
You are correct, I do refer global system setting , normally, as for my knowledge, photoshop color schemes can be custom made based on UIColors file, I was curious about the command to change de color scheme of the floating menus is photoshop. Nevertheless I did purchased both panels, and they are amazing, of course it will take time and practice to fully master, so far it improved my workflows considerably. Many thanks for creating this wonderful tools. Best regards, Paul
by creating three working images for specific tasks does this minimize the memory required on these large file sizes. i’ve notice that a large image these numerous channel masks requires a lot of memory.
My experience is that the computer doesn't crash/slow down as fast as when trying to do everything in 1 large file. Keep in mind that there's a maximum to the number of channels per file as well. So that's another reason to spread it out over multiple files.
I love this software but I have one problem. I constantly get halos around the objects I am selecting. You've mentioned that with organic objects like tree branches, perfect selections are not necessary, but this is where I get white lines between a branch a sky for instance. Frankly I had the same problem in a recent image of lighthouse as well. 'm sure I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what it is. I end up painting or cloning over the halo.
This is a generic editing/masking issue that is not related to the panel or any other software. Halos are the result of one or more of three things: 1/ inaccurate selections and/or 2/ pushing the contrast too hard and/or 3/ chromatic aberration. As for selections: what I said is that for organic shapes you can afford to be less accurate, meaning, less true to the original shape compared to architecture. But accuracy is always important. This isn’t the place to discuss selections (far too complicated), but with tree branches and leaves, most people forget that they have a high degree of translucency. That should be reflected in the mask: not pure white or black, but shades of grey with darker greys the more light it lets through. Essentially a blurred edge with enough shifting of the edge inside or outside of the object depending on what is going to be darker or lighter (sky or object).
Joel thank you for creating these series of webinars to accompany your panel. Before discovering your workflow and panels, I had spent two years searching and studying modern black and white photography resources trying to find the tools I needed to execute my vision for my photos. Your panel and teaching has given me those tools and a greater understanding of the principles underlying black and white fine art photography.
Thank you Jeff, always very encouraging to hear that.
Wonderful video thank you for sharing keep up the good job
Muchas gracias por este gran vídeo
I have a question if possible, I have a big interest, I noticed during tutorial that In the menus Load Selection and Save selection you have different colors for the panels title fill and also for the out line. How can I change these colors? Many thanks in advance. Also I would like to mention that you are doing an amazing work.
That has nothing to do with the panels, but is a global system setting. That is if you're referring to what I think you're referring to,
You are correct, I do refer global system setting , normally, as for my knowledge, photoshop color schemes can be custom made based on UIColors file, I was curious about the command to change de color scheme of the floating menus is photoshop. Nevertheless I did purchased both panels, and they are amazing, of course it will take time and practice to fully master, so far it improved my workflows considerably. Many thanks for creating this wonderful tools.
Best regards,
Paul
by creating three working images for specific tasks does this minimize the memory required on these large file sizes. i’ve notice that a large image these numerous channel masks requires a lot of memory.
My experience is that the computer doesn't crash/slow down as fast as when trying to do everything in 1 large file. Keep in mind that there's a maximum to the number of channels per file as well. So that's another reason to spread it out over multiple files.
I love this software but I have one problem. I constantly get halos around the objects I am selecting. You've mentioned that with organic objects like tree branches, perfect selections are not necessary, but this is where I get white lines between a branch a sky for instance. Frankly I had the same problem in a recent image of lighthouse as well. 'm sure I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what it is. I end up painting or cloning over the halo.
This is a generic editing/masking issue that is not related to the panel or any other software. Halos are the result of one or more of three things: 1/ inaccurate selections and/or 2/ pushing the contrast too hard and/or 3/ chromatic aberration.
As for selections: what I said is that for organic shapes you can afford to be less accurate, meaning, less true to the original shape compared to architecture. But accuracy is always important. This isn’t the place to discuss selections (far too complicated), but with tree branches and leaves, most people forget that they have a high degree of translucency. That should be reflected in the mask: not pure white or black, but shades of grey with darker greys the more light it lets through. Essentially a blurred edge with enough shifting of the edge inside or outside of the object depending on what is going to be darker or lighter (sky or object).
@@JoelTjintjelaar Thank you. Look forward to more of your video tutorials. I learn (or am able to understand) something new each time.
at what stage or which photo were all these luminosity masks made.
Luminosity masks are made in the same phase as the hard selections: from the original color file.
Is the intent to actually have time stamps throughout the video?
No, that was a mistake from my side. No timestamps are needed, it's just 1 topic.