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Color Correction for Dummies. (And everyone else.)
3Getting good color can sometimes be a difficult task, but if you follow some of these steps and use the tricks I explain in this post you can make color correction a much easier task. Everyone has their own personal preference on what is “good …
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Color Checker Passport does EXTREME color correction.
I’m sure you’ve encountered this problem before. Lighting conditions that are so bad that even a custom white balance in camera simply cannot fix. And you don’t have time or perhaps don’t have the skill to correct for these color errors on your own in …
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Get the best of your Pro Lab
First off, do feel free to read back to my lengthy review of a number of professional labs as well as several chain stores and other popular printers to understand better what labs may give you the best service for your money. The Big Lab …
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Color Correction in Lightroom & Photoshop – Video Tutorial
Rather than show you all of the steps involved in detail on the blog, I decided to just record a video tutorial and post the link here. Here is the before and after comparison. This was taken 2 years ago with a Nikon D70 camera …
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X-Rite ColorChecker Passport – Test and Review
First off, a quick history on the ColorChecker: “The Munsell ColorChecker—first produced as the Macbeth ColorChecker in 1976 and still widely known as the Gretag Macbeth ColorChecker—a cardboard-framed arrangement of twenty-four squares of painted samples based on Munsell colors. Its maker Munsell Labs and parent …
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Richer color without Saturation.
Here is a quick color tip that I learned as a professional printer & photo retoucher but use regularly now in my own photography to “boost” color without turning up the saturation. This gives me a beautiful, deep, rich color without touching the saturation slider …
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10 second Teeth Whitening + Video Tutorial
Here is a common problem. Perfect capture, perfect smile, perfect skin tone, yellowed teeth…… Yikes! It’s all too common these days no thanks to coffees, sodas or cigarette smoking causing discoloration to the front teeth. As a professional photographer, we really should fix these sort …
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The Big Lab Throwdown – Final Results
Here it is, more than a month in the making! Many thanks to the people who helped make it possible by either supporting with donations or suggesting labs for testing. First before I start into the results. Please do remember that the color results are …
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The Big Lab Throwdown – Update 3
Now that all of the labs and all of the prints are accounted for, I have started to compile data and put together some charts and have “graded” the prints for color compared to a set of reference prints I created myself. Of course my …
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The Big Lab Throwdown – Update 2
So it has been a week or so since the last update and some more orders have been placed and most labs are now accounted for in the test. Just to give an idea what labs are under the microscope, I made the decision to …
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