Some days ago, I told you how to obtain a comics-effect on your photographs using a kind of HDR technique. Remind that the most important rule was that to make a copy of the photo and merge to HDR with Photomatix the two pictures.
In this days I improved this technique and the result is this one:
I think that it is very beautiful. The steps that I followed are:
- I corrected the original RAW photo with DDP, making it sharpner and saturate and converted in a 16-bit TIFF format.
- With Photoshop I make other few corrections like brightness, contrast and color saturation.
- I created two copies of this TIFF file, and merged them in Photomatix.
- Here I made few adjustments like the black point, luminosity, shadows and highlights contrast. Saved again in the 16-bit TIFF format.
- I opened it with Ps where I adjusted contrast, saturation and applied two times the noise-reduction filter.
- Another time, two copies where created.
- I merged this two copies in Photomatix, corrected and saved in the TIFF format.
- In the end, I applied again the Ps noise reduction filter, corrected highlights and shadows, color saturation and contrast.
I hope you like the result as I do.
July 24, 2008 at 12:28 PM
great! the river looks like marble.
July 24, 2008 at 8:40 PM
Thank you! Anyway there are a lot of work to do here, in order to improve the results.