Belmont 16 ft sailing club, photographic club

ADDING "PUNCH and POP" TO YOUR IMAGES

This brief tutorial (AND THE TRAINING SESSION THAT GOES WITH IT) explores some of the ways in which you can turn a dull, flat image into one with "punch or pop".

Many of the ideas visited in this tutorial were explained in detail in earlier tutorials so before the training session you might like to brush up on the tutorials for Basic Processing of RAW Images, Levels and Curves. (You can access them all from this page.)

 

This tutorial was prepared by Roy Killen and is COPYRIGHT. It is part of the supplementary training materials for members of the Belmont 16 Ft Photographic Club and is not intended as a complete, stand-alone instruction package.

Comments and suggestions on this tutorial are welcome - they should be emailed to Roy Killen.

 

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD A JUDGE SAY . . .?

. . . This image is flat, or muddy, or dull, or under-exposed, or over-exposed.

Generall, comments such as this are made about images that have limited tonal range and contrast (especially if they are monochrome images) or colours that lack intensity and saturation.

These problems can occur because of:

  • The lighting (or other conditions) under which the photograph was taken.
  • The camera settings.
  • The way in which the digital image was processed.
  • The printing.

The result can be an image such as the one of the sample images on the left below, when what you really wanted was the image on the right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are many different ways in which you can approach the task of capturing and processing so that the image you finally display or print is the best possible one you can produce.

During the training session for this tutorial we will work through numerous examples using Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

If you have a particular image that you would like me to work on during the training session then please email it to me.

 

 

 

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This page last updated 19th September 2008 (RK)