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Chinese Red Lantern in Jiufen, Taiwan
Today, I’m going to walk you through the steps required for selective desaturation in Photoshop. If you missed yesterday’s phototip that introduced selective desaturation in the RAW process, you might want to check it out. Sometimes images will require a much more complex process to achieve the look and for those, it’s best to work on layers in Photoshop. Like everything in Photoshop, there are a few different methods that all end up with a similar result. Let’s take a look at two easy ways to accomplish the same thing. I want to isolate the main Chinese lantern in this, while having the rest of the image black and white. Here’s the original color image.
Chinese red lanterns, original image.
Red Gate
Selective desaturation is a popular look in some fields of photography. Also referred to as selective color, it’s the type of photograph where one element is in color and the rest, black and white. The technique is a bit of a love-hate thing – some photographers and viewers love it, others hate it. Personally, it’s not my cup of tea but I’m going to walk you through the steps anyway. Today we’ll look at doing it during the RAW stage. I’m using Lightroom for it, but it can be done just as easily in Adobe Camera RAW and probably Aperture (I’ve never used Aperture so I can’t say for sure).
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View of the Taiwan coastline from Jiufen
The September 2010 desktop calendar is now ready for download. Once again, it comes in a variety of sizes covering everything from large screens down to iPad and iPhone. As always, the links are below.
This month’s photograph is looking towards the north coast of Taiwan and the East China Sea.
Today, I’m going to walk you through the steps required for selective desaturation in Photosho…
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Craig Ferguson Images | Cultural Photography. One of the key aspects of life that we humans identify with is culture. We label people, places and events according to our ideas of what they are, ranging from the broader scale defined by tradition and place down to the small scale subcultures and tribes. Craig Ferguson Images is consistantly creating new visions in the field of cultural photography. From traditional festives and customs to modern, urban subcultures, Craig Ferguson Images is in touch with the changing world. From our base in Taipei, Taiwan we are perfectly positioned at the crossroads of the ancient and the modern.
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