Moose Petersons color cast flow - AWESOME

A friend of mine sent this to me yesterday. Many of you are experts at photoshop and NX2 so you might have a system you like better. I'm certainly not an expert but this is the easiest and most useful tip I have seen on NX2. It has made a huge difference in my pictures. It couldn't be any easier, and it is really fast.

Here is the website with several different training videos. The last one on the bottom of the screen with the eagle on it is the one I am referring to. It is called "NX2 color correction"

I hope it helps someone else as much as it has myself.

http://www.moosepeterson.com/D3/media_center.html#

Thanks for the link...many helpful vids.

TJ Reishus said:

I hope it helps someone else as much as it has myself.

http://www.moosepeterson.com/D3/media_center.html#

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Excellent stuff. Thank you for posting.

Hi,

These are excellent instructional videos. I hope that he will build a library of them covering more tools and functions in NX2. It would offset the pain of having to buy the programme!

If one was able to select just one topic in NX2 per person which would you choose? Don't feel that one has to select different ones, because if a number of posters vote for one aspect its popularity may persuade Moose to make a video on that topic.

I would like one on the gradient tool, how to use it to better effect and how to avoid the radius effect being obvious.

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J.

http://jules7.smugmug.com/

jhorse said:

Hi,

These are excellent instructional videos. I hope that he will build
a library of them covering more tools and functions in NX2. It would
offset the pain of having to buy the programme!

If one was able to select just one topic in NX2 per person which
would you choose? Don't feel that one has to select different ones,
because if a number of posters vote for one aspect its popularity may
persuade Moose to make a video on that topic.

I would like one on the gradient tool, how to use it to better effect
and how to avoid the radius effect being obvious.

--
J.

http://jules7.smugmug.com/

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Hi,

You can buy Jason Odell's book on NX2. It covers all tools in great details, including double threashold and gradient.

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Best regards

Thanks
jk

--Anyone that gos true all this steps to set white point is a nut. 2 clicks thats all it takes in Picasa 2 and if somebody likes to get even less works it can do in one.
Mironv
http://mironv.smugmug.com/

Mironv said:

--Anyone that gos true all this steps to set white point is a nut. 2
clicks thats all it takes in Picasa 2 and if somebody likes to get
even less works it can do in one.
Mironv
http://mironv.smugmug.com/

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Hi,
I am not familiar with Picasa 2. How is it done in it?

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Best regards

Sagittarius said:

Mironv said:

--Anyone that gos true all this steps to set white point is a nut. 2
clicks thats all it takes in Picasa 2 and if somebody likes to get
even less works it can do in one.
Mironv
http://mironv.smugmug.com/

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Hi,
I am not familiar with Picasa 2. How is it done in it?

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Best regards

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--Picasa 2 is a free download form Google and its best Photo editing suit there is.Why ? Because if one can read it can do everything in it. Any other program force users to gain extensive knowledge of how to use a program in a first place.

Picasa has 3 tabs that show when one opens a image : Basic Fixes,Tunning, Effects

on a tab Tunning on a bottom is a tool that say Neutral color picker Click on it and move a pointer on a white part of anything in a picture click on it and it will automatically corrects WB sets white point and everything will just look balanced.

To a right is a small icon that looks like magic wand and if you put a pointer on it it will say :One click fix for color just click and and its done.

Changes in a over all color cast will be more visible if WB set to take picture was set incorrectly. If it was correct or very close there will be very small amount of "improvement".There is also a slider that you can do same manually and see how its affects picture. Picasa 2 dose excellent job with jpegs less so with RAW data.
Mironv
http://mironv.smugmug.com/

Is there any more vids? I found this very good. Thanks
Paul
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Don't be afraid of the dark, as it's only a lack of light !!!!!!
http://www.pbase.com/paulbreen

mironv,

Thank you for the explanation. BTW the same thing you can do in PS. The only problem I see is to choose the right white or black spot. With double threashold it is easy. Whichevere shows up first is the most white or black pixel.
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I guess I should have specified that it's great for people who shoot in raw. I only shoot raw and picasa for now is really bad a the D300 raw. It was good with my d70 so I expect that there will be an update.

I guess you must have been distracted during the video, Moose clearly says that he doesn't normally need to do it that way. A couple of clicks is all it takes in most convertors. He is showing features and their use in those videos, poresumably to many who are not very experienced with NX2 or image development.

If you watch the videos, you should be convinced that post processing in NX2 is both powerful and very fast.

Thank you, thank you, thank you (and to your friend). I tried this with NX (I don't have NX2) and it seems to work well and it's super quick.

On the negative side, I'm going to have to go through my old images to rework them ; )

Thanks again,
John
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johntazbazphotography.smugmug.com

These forums are only of value and work when everyone is helpful, polite and informative. People like to try different techniques, programmes and equipment; each to his own.

I say again, many thanks to the original poster for the links, which for those who do use NX/NX2 were of great value, especially from one of the world's foremost photographers.

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J.

http://jules7.smugmug.com/

If your good with ACR......can do it a lot faster. the first control set in ACR works very quick.

90% of my PP is done in ACR....takes a few seconds.....usually first set of controls, curves, and some minor tweaks in the calibration area...(I use it more like a color control tool....usually no saturation adjustments but the colors can be dialed in 100%

Roman
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'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who are we to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous.

Actually, who are we not to be?'

--Marianne Williamson

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