Color Retouching Adds Mood to Digital Asset Library

Happy 2010!

Let's take a look at what Camera Raw can do for your digital assets. Search around on your digital asset library or corporate image library and maybe you'll find a few lost images. This super simple tequnique will help you bring new life to these lost treasures.
 

I love a vignette... and really who doesn't? Ok, well not everyone and thats fine. Art is meant to be subjective. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I find beauty in imperfections. I love grain, rusty metal, scratches, etc... the list is long but you get the idea. 

I thought for the new year I would create a quick little art piece out of a photo I took back in November.



I started out in camera raw and clicked Auto. Don't be scared! The Auto button today is fantastic!  Well ok maybe not fantastic, but its pretty darn great.



Then I boosted the clarity (a note on clarity: this is an amazing little slider... it can give your wedding photography the look of misty far of romance and then swing it the other way for hard grainy hi pass grunge all in about FIVE SECONDS!) You must try it! Now add a bit in the vibrance then over to the vignette tab...



ohhh ahhh  oooo LOVE the vignette feature in camera raw!  Makes quick work of getting that  old school feel...

Next open to Photoshop and tweek tweek tweek... I added a bit more sharpening and some more contrast... then its all done! What did that take like 10 minutes tops! Here's the final look... SWEET!




A look at 2010

Lets make fabulous images for the world to see! Images that inspire greatness in others. Not an easy assignment but we can make it happen.... Here's my first shot of 2010. My hubby in the woods wearing the winter crown he made with our daughter.





xoxo
Joy