It Begins (Repost - With better colour balance)
Added 2020-10-10 20:11:00 +0000 UTCIn the last image that I posted, there was something that was kind of driving me crazy about it. I found that while the colours were okay, the balance felt 'muddy'. Its hard to explain without nerding out about 'levels' and 'curves' too much, but the darker parts of the image felt a little blurry. Like they were too mixed in and it gave everything too much of an 'airbrush on the side of a van' feeling. The image also wasn't conveying the light how I wanted it to be. Kind of a morning wandering to afternoon feeling.
I'll leave the other versions up, of course, for those who prefer it to this one. And while I still want to go in and 'fiddle' with a bunch of things on this, I'm at least at a level I can step away and have the more glaring thing that was triggering my OCD settled.
I apologize for a bit of a spam-post of this one.
-T.J.
Comments
Funny thing is that's exactly what I thought when I did the final save to a .png file. The program I used is a newer one and has some odd shifts when I save from the source file. Sometimes it results in lines and colours appearing weirdly blurry and some of the edges disappearing. This time around I used the old copy of Photoshop I still have and it kept everything brighter and sharper. Lesson learned! :)
Tim J.
2020-10-11 04:15:56 +0000 UTCI agree -- 'muddy' is a word that occurred to me on the previous. I thought I was just bleary-eyed, but now it's perfect.
Perfesser Bear
2020-10-11 02:56:24 +0000 UTC
