Comments on: Day 5 of “I’m Giving Up Photoshop” Month

By: Debbie

Debbie — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:38:01 +0000

I have LR4. No Radial Tool for vignetting. Any alternative to the Radial Tool?

By: Keith R. Starkey

Keith R. Starkey — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:26:45 +0000

You know, I can’t see any vignetting after you used the Radial tool. The colors are definitely more vivid and what have you, but I just can’t see what that Radial tool did. Oh well, my eye for such things isn’t trained well yet. Thanks much for this series!

By: Nicholas Ryan

Nicholas Ryan — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:50:42 +0000

One Solution to not having the color profiles when shooting JPEGs is to create an action for each Color profile and saving it. I remember this from a video from Scott Kelby.

By: Malcolm Duffy

Malcolm Duffy — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:17:31 +0000

It is amazing what you can achieve with some tweaks and sliders. I love the end result and thoroughly enjoyed learning how you managed to achieve it. It is really impressive. Detailed retouching is completely unnecessary in this case.

By: Matt K

Matt K — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 22:44:11 +0000

In reply to Marty. You're very welcome!

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 19:37:10 +0000

This is really helpful Matt! Thanks for doing this.

By: Dennis Zito

Dennis Zito — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:54:12 +0000

In reply to Matt K.

Hi Matt,

You crack me up!!! Hey, are you planning on taking a relatively poor photo and try to rescue it in LR5? I know you wouldn’t do that normally, but it would be interesting to see how you would handle it in LR5. Sometimes we have a shot we’ll never be able to take again, which would be nice to kind of rescue it. Have a Great time in SF!

Dennis

By: Bill Bentley

Bill Bentley — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:57:06 +0000

Hi Matt,
While I see and agree with your point about not performing detailed retouching in this instance, on my monitor the girls nose looks a bit too bright. It was light on the original image and became lighter via the radial filter. Just my $.02.

By: Joe S

Joe S — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:19:29 +0000

In reply to Ferzio Mampwe. Matt, this is unrelated to the post but I just watched your long exposure class. It was excellent. One tip that I use is instead of the Lee I use the B & W 9 stop, and I use the XUME filter rings. They allow you to remove the filter and replace it very quickly. I liked it so much I ordered them for all of my filters.

By: Matt K

Matt K — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:12:43 +0000

In reply to Dennis Zito. LOL Dennis. I actually hope that happens to everyone. It really is a formula. I do most of the same things all of the time and I'm really hoping people can see that with a few tweaks/sliders/etc... you can make a big difference on the photo.