Conny Wallstrom, Author at DIY Photography

Retouching Essentials: Are You Having Color Issues When Dodging & Burning? This Might Be The Reason

May 15, 2015 by Conny Wallstrom Leave a Comment

Many of the tools inside of Photoshop use various color models and techniques to alter color. If you are not familiar with them you might be creating a lot of trouble for yourself.

A lot of retouching tutorials online will teach you to use a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer with -100 saturation to remove the color information from an image (this should eliminate color distractions when Dodging and burning). If you are following this advice, then you are working with Lightness in the HSL color model, which is very different from how our eyes perceive color…

Here is a quick example why it is a bad idea:

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8-bit vs 16-bit – What Color Depth You Should Use And Why It Matters

February 24, 2015 by Conny Wallstrom 35 Comments

When going into an edit process there is much confusion about what color depth should one use. Some pieces of knowledge are more relevant than others and some are not relevant at all. Either way, the selection of color depth in which you edit will have a huge impact on the final editing result.

The purpose of this article is to try and clear up the confusion about bit depth and give you advice on what bit depth to choose when you edit and output your images.

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