Light Machine
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:18 am
I have bought the Light Maschine,and so far I'm happy with it.
It was mainly to be able to handle the most common problem in image editing, dark underexposed parts.
It's very versatile and makes processing easier, even if it still takes time. With more experience I will probably learn to finish quicker. It also has the ability to change colors separately, wich PS Elements doesn't have for instance.
I have realised though that it can't handle all pictures. But that's not surprising with the great number of variations there are. Even personal taste can play a role when desiding wich parts of a picture one wants to change.
I think the easiest way still is to use LM and then afterwards select the parts that shouldn't have been affected, and restore them to the original,
The alternative is of course to use your regular editing program and do
it all manually, wich is possible, but very time consuming.
I have one thing I like to ask about. It's the Colour filter.
I can't figure out what's going on, it doesn't seem to work as intended,but I've probably misunderstood it.
The same explanation is given both on the shadows and highlights tabs. It says:.."for filtering image areas of a certain color from the shadows"
Does "filtering from" mean that the particular color should be covered and not affected by the changes?
I see some changes of the mask when moving the filter slider but it's not consistent. It covers some parts of Red but not others for instance. And Green seems to be even more difficult.
Not that this is a big problem for me,I don't think I will use it, but who knows?
Leif G.
It was mainly to be able to handle the most common problem in image editing, dark underexposed parts.
It's very versatile and makes processing easier, even if it still takes time. With more experience I will probably learn to finish quicker. It also has the ability to change colors separately, wich PS Elements doesn't have for instance.
I have realised though that it can't handle all pictures. But that's not surprising with the great number of variations there are. Even personal taste can play a role when desiding wich parts of a picture one wants to change.
I think the easiest way still is to use LM and then afterwards select the parts that shouldn't have been affected, and restore them to the original,
The alternative is of course to use your regular editing program and do
it all manually, wich is possible, but very time consuming.
I have one thing I like to ask about. It's the Colour filter.
I can't figure out what's going on, it doesn't seem to work as intended,but I've probably misunderstood it.
The same explanation is given both on the shadows and highlights tabs. It says:.."for filtering image areas of a certain color from the shadows"
Does "filtering from" mean that the particular color should be covered and not affected by the changes?
I see some changes of the mask when moving the filter slider but it's not consistent. It covers some parts of Red but not others for instance. And Green seems to be even more difficult.
Not that this is a big problem for me,I don't think I will use it, but who knows?
Leif G.