Camera’s View

In the previous post I referenced a preset created for draining all colors except red.

It’s actually easier than you might think.

Here are two images of butterflies where I drained out most of the color.

Technique

In the Lightroom Develop module -

• Perform your desired tonal adjustments
• In the HSL/Color/Grey scale panel, select Color
• Drop all the saturation levels to zero except for the color(s) you want remaining. (you may also adjust the luminance and hue as desired)

In the top example I left Orange and Magenta and in the next image I left only Orange.

One issue I did run into was what to do with the extraneous hints of color away from your focus point ?

This would be easy to correct in Photoshop by making selections around the unwanted items and then to desaturate these items. Not as easy a task in Lightroom, until Lightroom 2.0 anyways, the only option is to clone out these areas, resulting in the image below.

Matt Kloskowski of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips Blog, posted a new preset he calls “Sin City Look”.  Basically what Matt is doing is draining all the colors out of an image and leaving just the reds.

I did something similar  to this in a previous posting but I never created or saved a preset for later use.

Matt’s settings also seem to provide a much richer color rendering.

Here is a sample of a before and after image using Matt’s technique -

Before

After

You can get the presets from Matt’s Site by clicking here.

Beautiful night here in New England, so my wife and I decided to dine out at the Clam Box in Ipswich MA.

After consuming more fried food than we probably should, we headed to Ipswich Neck and Bay area to check out the ocean and views.

Here is an image I captured of Ipswich Bay looking towards the setting sun.

The image was first processed with Adobe Lightroom and then transfered to Photoshop to make some additional edits using Scott Kelby’s 7 Point System.

Just finished reading botanical DREAMING by Mark S. Johnson.

Two words come to mind - Inspirational and Beautiful.

If you have followed Mark’s work on the Radiant Vista website, you know he is a great teacher of Photoshop techniques. This book confirms that he is also a excellent writer and a very good photographer.

If my recommendation is not good enough for you, botanical DREAMING was also recently mentioned and highly praised by Scott Kelby on his Photoshop Insider Blog.