| 31.
Solarizing an image in Adobe Photoshop CS2 and saving it back
to Adobe Lightroom
Article
31 of 100
Ever
since I was very young I was always drawn to the photography
of Man Ray and have tried at times over the years to produce
a few solarized images, mostly without success. I imagine
that Man Ray also produced a lot of waste paper when he was
experimenting in the darkroom.
In
those earlier days of darkroom experimentation it was very
hard to produce consistent results, but now that we have computers,
we can of course produced the same effect over and over again
without fail. Still producing a good result with solarization
is more art than science so the result is always a surprise,
at least the first time.
Once
again we will tackle the same fairly drab close-up of the
Quoddy West Lighthouse and see if the computer can produce
a little magic. For this exercise I will select the image
in Adobe Lightroom and execute the command for editing in
Adobe Photoshop CS2, when I am finished with Photoshop CS2
I will Save the image so that it will appear in Adobe Lightroom
with the changes made in Photoshop CS2.
Select
Edit in Adobe Photoshop CS2
Select
Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments - this will make a
TIFF copy of the original RAW image file and place the copy
in the Adobe Lightroom Library (next to the original image
file) - this TIFF Edit file will then be opened in Adobe Photoshop
CS2.
The
TIFF Edit image file is now open in Adobe Photoshop CS2 (with
Adobe Lightroom still open in the background) and I will apply
the Solarize Filter to the image file.
As
you can see the Solarize Filter effect is fairly dark so I
am going to apply Auto Contrast. How did I decide to apply
Auto Contrast? I have done this before and it seems a good
place to start. If Auto Contrast does not work, I will probably
resort to the Manual Brightness/Contrast settings next.
Hallelulya,
Auto Contrast seems to work just fine. Now the only thing
left to do is to apply Save (not Save As) and the image will
be saved in the location where Adobe Lightroom saved it when
it first made the Edit Copy at the beginning of this exercise.
And here is the image back
in the Adobe Lightroom Library module in Compare mode with
the original RAW image on the left and the exported to Photoshop
CS2, Solarized and saved back to Adobe Lightroom image on
the right.
P.S.:
Please do not get upset if your personal experience and views
are different from my own. These opinions are mine exclusively
and do not reflect the views or policies of any of the manufacturers
mentioned in this article...... George
Mann |
