Lab Adjust by Band by ronviers

Lab Adjust by Band by ronviers
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3525.html

Thanks Steve - are you a photographer or do you see it more as a special effects filter? It expect that it would require a professional photographer, or at least an expert photographer, to use it for retouching but it has potential for other things as well.

You may want to look at my divide into bands snippet for your glass if you do not already do that - although you probably already do. I am going to release my first glass filter tomorrow based on feeding bands back on the image but it looks very unlike your glass.

Thanks for checking it out

Hi Persidio - really nice to hear from you. This filter is a little trickier to use than the Lab Enhance filter. Here is a tutorial written by ByRo, the person responsible for the entire concept.

http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=213

The filter does all the tricky parts for you. Just use trial and error to isolate the parts of the image you want removed by selecting the band and band width; then try blend modes 10, 11, 12 or 14 (with or without invert), overlay, hard light, soft light, linear light respectively, to determine how much of the band of frequencies you want to zero out.
You can also use it for sharpening or softening, hue, contrast, saturation and special effects. It's a very powerful filter but I'm afraid it is just too darn hard to use. If you have any questions or problems using it be sure to contact me.

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ton of Zoo pics this week

I love the monkeys - did you get any monkey pics?

Nice Persidio - Thanks. You have a way of making my filters look better than they really are.

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I've been thinking of uploading, still working on it

Looking forward to it.

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out to be fairly distracting

"I don't want a pickle..."

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"I don't want a pickle..."

LOL

What?

You crack me up!~

You don’t remember the old Arlo Guthrie song ‘The Motorcycle Song’?

http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/...arlo.shtml


I don't want a pickle, I just want to ride my mooootorsickle...

Hi Ron~

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You don’t remember the old Arlo Guthrie song ‘The Motorcycle Song’?

Well you got me... I don't remember it... Kewl lyrics though... LOL


Hi Steve~

Oh you mean I posted too fast for ya'! Whooo Hooo! 'Bout Time!

I think she said she “hoisted two vats”. Probably vats of pickles.

Ron, ran some tests.....used this filter for this prep image.....

starting from this.....

Your welcome

Cybachrome is a special type of high-end printing (photo paper and chemical print process) from slide film that yields the deepest and richest color imaginable.....

I'm holding off on buying a new digital camera until megapixels have totally left film grain in the dust.....and besides, I already have tons of images to work with.....or should I say "digitally manipulate" into art

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ronviers wrote: I have never worked with a film camera I wish I had. And I still have never printed anything.

same as your dSLR without all the extra expenses and hassles.....and working in a darkroom totally sux, unhealthy breathing the chemicals, and absorbes way too much of your time. I did it for years.....and digital is an absolute godsend for time, money, efficiency, and control.....

As far as I'm concerned, the film camera is now totally obsolete.....like a horse-drawn buggy LOL....

Seven grand will get you the 1Ds MkII - but then you have to buy lenses.

BTW, I have submitted an update that separates the saturation control for the band and main image components and I replaced the wonky hue adjustment with one more accurate and predictable - It should post tomorrow.

What happened to the filter, I tried to download it and got a page saying it had been removed

Ohhhhhhh.... sorry to hear that. Not about the filter, but about your time left to play with FF

Your not going to disappear though, right Ron?
Your filters will still be here and still be used, so you never know

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Don't feel bad, I have a lot of non-filter related activities I needed to get caught up on anyway.

((((AAWE)))

Ron forget you can catch me in email.

This place is not the same for me without you~

You'll still post right? Feel free to talk/chat ect thru any of my threads or Foxxee's ... please?

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Foxxee wrote: don't want to have your muscles atrify

No chance of that

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Persidio wrote: You'll still post right?

Hey I'm not dying! Just going to try some other graphics related direction.
Any suggestions?

LOL you can tell by the look on his face that he just doesn't understand why she is upset - typical male.

You know, I keep hearing about Poser, Poser this and Poser that, I'm at the very least take a close look at Poser - I don't even know what it does.

And your point about Lightwave being integrated into CS3 is an excellent one. I don't want to let my PS skills slip - same with AI.

Later today I will look into Poser and Lightwave and check for a trial program. I will have to go do more waiting in a bit but it shouldn't take that long - this time I will take a book.

Thanks for all the great advice!

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Persidio wrote: so if you do try Poser ... let me know and I'll try it too

That's good enough for me - Poser it is.

I will read up on it an report back.

"Poser is a 3D rendering and animation software program optimized for models that depict the human figure in three-dimensional form."

"Maya is a popular, proprietary integrated node-based 3D software suite, evolved from Alias PowerAnimator. The software is released in two versions: Maya Complete (the less powerful package) and Maya Unlimited."

"Maya Personal Learning Edition (PLE) is available at no cost for non-commercial use, although rendered images are watermarked."

It would be nice to know both Maya and Poser. It looks like to make movies and games both would be necessary. My initial impressions are that without Maya, or something like it, the Poser output will have no environment to exist in.
I really like the idea of a watermarked version of Maya for free.
I would like to make a dinosaur.