Earthbound Light Photography TipsWeekly Photoshop and digital photography tips, articles and tutorials from EarthboundLight.comColor Balance Adjustment with Levels- May 25, 2008 If you have an image that has a slight color cast to it, the Color Balance option in Photoshop is generally your best option to rectify it. It definitely is the easiest option to use. But sometimes you may feel a need to go beyond what it is capable of, and for this there's always Levels. We've looked at the power of Levels before. They're great for optimizing contrast. But when operating on individual channels rather than the image as a whole they can be used to adjust color balance and...http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/color-balance-levels.html Tweaking Color Balance in Photoshop- May 18, 2008 Sometimes an image may have a slight color cast, either due to white balance issues or simply because you remember it looking different than your camera does. Even if all you want is to be able to tweak the color slightly to give an image a different feel it's nice to have an easy way to do it. As with most things in Photoshop, there are any number of ways to adjust color balance, but the easiest is the aptly named Image >> Adjustments >> Color Balance....http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/photoshop-color-balance.html My Old D2x Versus my New D300- May 11, 2008 Regular readers here probably know I sold my trusty Nikon D2x and bought a D300 when they first came out late last year. There are a lot of D2x and D2Xs on the used market right now. Since a used D2x and a new D300 currently sell for more or less the same price, you may be wondering which is a better buy. Both the D2x (as well as the D2Xs) and the D300 produce the exact same size image and have effectively the same resolution. The truth is, both are great cameras, but they are not the same....http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/nikon-d2x-versus-d300.html Variations on a Theme- May 4, 2008 Photoshop is a complex program, and it takes getting used to. But sometimes people are just looking for a quick and easy way to visually make tonal corrections to an image, and for this Curves and such may be overkill. One of the underused features in Photoshop is a tool called "Variations."....http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/photoshop-variations.html |