Users Quickly Transform Original Images into Artistic PhotosPalo Alto, Calif. – September 5, 2007 – Light Crafts, creator of LightZone photo-editing software, today announced general availability of LightZone version 3.1. The release includes new capabilities for quickly changing the look of objects within a photograph, determined by color or luminosity. With a single operation, users can now change the exposure of the sky in an image, sharpen only the yellow flowers in a field, or quickly modify the exposure of a face. This version further extends the selective editing capabilities of LightZone so that users can rapidly edit portions of photographs without altering surrounding details.“With this release, Light Crafts continues to liberate digital photo-editing users from the tedious technology-focused approach to editing, allowing them instead to focus on the art of image creation,” said Georges van Hoegaerden, Chief Executive Officer of Light Crafts.The advancements in image
I have previously written a post about Tony Kuyper's incredibly useful Luminosity Mask Actions. No need to rewrite about how good they are, if you have tried them out you already know. But it is worth mentioning that he has updated them. The tutorial and updated actions can be found here.In addition, he has now developed actions with an associated tutorial for generating saturation masks, aimed at providing fine control over the saturation of very carefully targeted colors. They are available here. I have just downloaded them but have not yet had the chance to use them in earnest. However, if they are anywhere near the quality of his luminosity masks they will undoubtedly be very useful indeed.Once again Tony, thanks for making these tutorials and actions available to all!
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My blog bias, if you will, has been to not focus on Photoshop techniques. However, every so often a little Photoshop tidbit or tutorial comes along that I feel is so worthwhile that it would be a shame not to share it. This is the case with a recent tutorial on luminosity masking that comes complete with downloadable Photoshop actions.First, I have to give credit to Mark Graf for finding the tutorial and posting a link to it on his blog called Notes From The Woods. His post with the specific information about the tutorial can be found here. The tutorial itself can be found here.The tutorial explains the utility and basics of luminosity masking far better than I could in a single post. The uniqueness of this particular tutorial is the included set of downloadable actions with instructions for their use. More importantly, the actions allow one to easily generate not only a standard luminosity mask, but also masks that are ‘ultra-directed’ to the brightest highlights, the darkest shad
Ever since I read Tony Kuyper’s tutorial on luminosity masking, I have a really hard time staying away from them, particularly for landscape shots with a lot of tonal range. And with my recent fiddling with Lightroom, which offers a tremendous amount of control outside of Photoshop, you are constantly toying with the [...]
