Local National Park...

[Dan A]

Here are a couple from a fairly recent shot in a local national park, not sure which processing I like the best.

They have been edited in Adobe Lightroom beta 3. Added a grad filter for the sky, adjusted saturation and warmth, brightness, exposure and pretty much the same for the foreground of them as well.

The third shot is the one edited in Canons DPP can't push as much out of them as you can in Lightroom, I seriously need to buy it when released.



Before



And Afters....




And the Canon DPP which it was initially processed in until I got LR3 Beta 2.

[bethann1978]

How did you get those great colors to come out in lightroom? I've been thinking of purchasing lightroom but cannot make up my mind between it and Photoshop Elements.

[jgomez65]

Beutiful picture. The only thing I don't like is that the image of the person sitting gets too dark to the point that it is almost indistinguishable.

I would try to add a small Omni or Directional light on the person using PS. It is just a suggestion, but other than that I really like the picture. Good job bringin the colors up

[Dan A]

Originally Posted by bethann1978

How did you get those great colors to come out in lightroom? I've been thinking of purchasing lightroom but cannot make up my mind between it and Photoshop Elements.

Just playing around with lightroom and different settings and different gradiated filters withing lightroom, also the adjustment brush with automasking.

Lightroom 3 Beta 2 is a free download atm and works pretty well if you wanted to try it.

I also have PSE but rarely using it now that I have been trialling the beta.

[CaptainNH]

A great transformation of the original image which, though well composed, would otherwise have been very flat.

I love the warm, more natural looking, colours of the second image.

The last couple of images have a very "Top Gear" feel to them (if you know what you mean ) - I like it!

Great work!