| Work Flow in Photo Shop for my 10D processing. All in-camera settings at "zero". Highest quality jpeg. |
| Unprocessed, re-sized only. |
| Step 1. Adjust Levels. |
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| Step 2. Run my custom 10D action. |
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| 10D Action is the adjustment shown below, plus a +1 bump in Saturation using "Variations". |
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| Step 3. Resize ( web purposes ) |
| Actual Pixels |
| Step 4. Run Fred Miranda's "IntelliSharpen" plug-in. Settings are Level 5 with Opacity Tweak enabled. Tweak the opacity using the Layers tool shown below. These were the settings for the sample image: |
| Step 5. "Polish" using a custom action I call "10D-Polisher". Creative title, eh? :-) It's USM at these settings: 10 - 20 - 0 |
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| Step 6. If shooting in Adobe RGB, convert to Profile sRGB ( looks better on the web ). You may need to make further adjustments at this point. I shoot sRGB and my prints look fantastic. |
| Step 7. Save for web using Photoshp's "Save for web" feature". |
| Finished image: |
| Disclaimer: This work flow is only what produces pleasing images for me, and for web display. Printing involves a slightly different work flow. I do not think my work flow is perfect, and am open to suggestions for improvement. This page created for those who've asked, over the last few months. :-) |
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| Variations is last in the action recipe. This allows you to use the "Fade" command to reduce the saturation, if needed. |
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| Image size settings. |
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| Hint: The Fade command comes in handy here to fine tune the polish effect. |
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| Step 4-a. Flatten the layers. |
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| Others that I use: |
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