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Jiro's "How to enhance your picture" Part 2 -Basic

jiro

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Hi,

Welcome to Jiro's How to enhance your picture tutorial part 2 - Basic.

Here in part 2, I will try to show you most of the basic photoshop techniques that will come in handy when enhancing pictures of your watches
so that we can move on to the next intermediate level on upcoming part 3.




- How to get rid of Dust & Scratches -

Here we have a close up shot of PAM005 which has some dust on the dial.

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Let's get rid of those annoying bastards! :twisted:

First, select the spot that you want to get rid of....

And go to "Filter" => "Noise" => "Dust&Scratches..."

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Change the Radius to 5 while leaving the Threshold on zero.

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Press OK.

Notice that dust is now gone? :D

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Now, let's repeat the process and apply it onto all the neccessary areas.

But this time, you don't have to click on "Filter" and go through all that....

Just select the area you want and press "Ctrl + F" which will repeat the last "Filter" action! Neat eh~ :wink: It will save you whole lot of time~ :D

And Here's the result of that.....

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Nice and clean~~~~ 8)


*Before*
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*After*
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Next.....

- How to cut through the glare -

Often times we take a picture and there are this glare on the crystal blocking the view of dial.

This tutorial will teach you how to cut through that annoying glare.




Here, we have a picture of might SMP Chrono.....but it's hard to tell the true texture & color of the dial because of that glare....

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Let's use the Magnetic Lasso tool which was covered in part 1 and go around the whole crystal.
(If you prefer using Elliptical Marquee tool, you can use that too. I just prefer using Magnetic Lasso tool more since I can select any shape of area.)

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Now, go to "Image" => "Adjustments" => "Levels..."

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In part 1, we've learned to use this "Level.." option to adjust color by changing only one of the "Input Level".

But this time, we're going to have to use all 3 "Input Levels" to cut through that glare....

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It will require different values depending on your pictures, but here we will use this value to change the input level.
(This is just an example to show you how it's done....you really have to play with this option to get used to it.)

Let's go ahead and change the Input Levels to 60, 0.50, 240

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Notice how you can see the dial now?

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Let's get the right color by using "Auto Color" option. (Refer to Part 1)

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Presto~! :D



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*After*
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Next...

- How to make your picture more sharpe and crisp -

Here, we have a picture of good ol sub and beautiful TT GTM II.

Now, I want this picture to be more sharpe and crisp so that it would pop out to viewer's eye.

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Go to "Filter" => "Sharpen" => "Unsharp Mask.."

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There are three vlaues you can adjust...."Amount", "Radius" and "Threshold".

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Again, it will require different amount of values depending on your picture.
But, here we will use this value to make this picture more sharpe and crisp.

Let's change the "Amount" to 100%, "Radius" to 1.0 and leave the "Threshold" to 0.

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Notice how sharpe and crisp the picture became?

Adjust the Color using "Auto Color" and...

Presto~!

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We have a winner~~~ :D




*Before*
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*After*
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And that is all for my "Basic" part of this tutorial~! :D

Next part will be a Intermediate level which will cover stuffs like "Clone Stamping" and "Noise Reduction", etc....

It will be fun~ Please stay tune~~~ :wink:

And thanks for reading my crappy writing~! :lol:
 
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ssalxpanerai

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very useful and helpful tips. Very enjoy reading and will definitely learn and do that to my next photos. Thanks a lot Jiro for your great contribution.
 

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Pure genius... Jiro which version of photoshop do you have? I have 8.0 middle eastern version (whatever that means) but I guess it is similar to what you have. Awesome tutorial for dummies like me. :D
 

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excellent job jiro...thoroughly enjoyed it as i did part one....thanks for taking the time for the tutorial [smilie=headbang.gif]
 

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Great tutorial!! Unfortunately i have Paint shop Pro.
Can't wait to read more about it :D
 

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I have Photoshop and bearly use it because I don't have the time to learn it. This makes things a lot easier.

Thanks!
 

jiro

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Thanks guys~ :wink:

It's my pleasure to help out a little~~~

Now somebody try this and post some freakin picture!!!@!@$%^$@! :twisted:

:lol: :wink:
 

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Make this a STICKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great job jiro, I am going to try it out soon. Thanks so much.
 

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Here they are

excellent

thanks

helmut

before (no autocolor but dial work on 217):

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and after using part 2:

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see you helmut
 

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Helmut, this made a big difference!
 

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This is an old photo that I shared with Pugwash after he and I talked about picasa and the auto adjustments that it can do to your photos..

Here is a before

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And After...

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WOW~ ~ Quite a view you got there d4M!

Riding on your private jet, huh~? :lol: :wink:
 

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jiro said:
WOW~ ~ Quite a view you got there d4M!

Riding on your private jet, huh~? :lol: :wink:

Well, It's not "Mine" I co-lease it with 3 other people. That was over the Grand Canyon on one of my trips to vegas.
 

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I'll have to give Photoshop a try sometime, I'm not really very 'techy' but it looks easy enough.
 

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It wouldn't let me change levels when I outlined the crystal, but I found that I could cut some glare on the crystal by lassoing the crystal, then
Image -> Adjustments --> Shadows/Highlights
Then under "highlights" I a) increased highlights and b) increased tonal width.
I just have to figure out what I did wrong.
 

CaitlinHampton

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Those watches really look nice...thanks for sharing the important information any way the pics were just awesome...
 

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Great post Jiro.
I just wanted to add for those people that can't afford to buy Photoshop or Paintshop pro, there is a brilliant free equivalent called 'Gimp'
http://www.gimp.org/
(Yes that is it's name) it's a fantastic bit of software and totally free. I use it for tweaking digital pictures all the time.
Just thought some may find useful.
 

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This is awesome. I am too lazy to do all that but glad to know the info.