How to make greens pop in landscapes?

[Ernie Misner]

Do you have any good methods for making the greens really gorgeous in your landscape images? In the image below (that was shot in very low light, low contrast situation) I have slightly increased the saturation and using a curve have pulled the green channel up a bit. Still, there must be a better way of doing it. It looks too yellowish or something here. Thanks for any green editing ideas.





This is Skate Creek, near Ashford, WA. I used a polarizer, don't know if it helped or hurt the greens really.



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[YoThatLimp]

I think it mainly comes down to the white balance here, I adjusted the WB and the green and yellow channels a bit, but without knowing what you prefer or how it looks I don't know how close I got.

 

[Ernie Misner]

Thanks Yo! I think you are on the right track. I will give that a try. I won't go quite as far with it, and apply with a brush just to the moss on our subject, the tree trunk. Thanks again.

 

[MysteryLemon]

I'll be honest, looks great on my screen. Nice and natural, wouldn't want it to "pop" any more than that.

 

[canonbcguy]

In a Fuji X100, the greens in out of camera jpegs popped when I set the film emulation to "Velvia".

In my D7100, I use the "Vivid" setting and colors are more saturated.

I believe these are just in-camera methods of what you are doing with Photoshop. But for me, they are a simple tweak that often alleviates the need to post-process (good because I'm a newbie).

 

[Mark S Abeln]

What software are you using?

Dan Margulis, in his Professional Photoshop book, describes a method of selectively popping foliage using the Channel Mixer.

 

[Ernie Misner]

Thanks for the reply Mark. I have NX2, DxO Optics, LR, and CC. I will give the channel mixer a try.

 

[drh681]

In ACR or LR you can shift the colors, saturations and luminance after optimizing the WB.

(the original has a slight blue cast)









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[Mark S Abeln]

Thanks for the reply Mark. I have NX2, DxO Optics, LR, and CC. I will give the channel mixer a try.

The use of the Channel Mixer is not intuitive. You might want to take a look at this discussion:

https://www.ledet.com/margulis/2007HTM/ACT06-3_shades_of_green.htm

 

[Ernie Misner]

In ACR or LR you can shift the colors, saturations and luminance after optimizing the WB.

(the original has a slight blue cast)



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That's it! .... and simple, makes so much sense because the original was shot in very low light/shade. Thanks so much.



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[Ernie Misner]

What software are you using?

Dan Margulis, in his Professional Photoshop book, describes a method of selectively popping foliage using the Channel Mixer.

 

[drh681]

What software are you using?

Dan Margulis, in his Professional Photoshop book, describes a method of selectively popping foliage using the Channel Mixer.

 

[drh681]

In ACR or LR you can shift the colors, saturations and luminance after optimizing the WB.

(the original has a slight blue cast)



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That's it! .... and simple, makes so much sense because the original was shot in very low light/shade. Thanks so much.

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The nice thing is, you can apply the same settings to a stack or group of images just by choosing "apply previous conversion"

If this is going to be a regular subject area, you can save the setting and use it on the next batch too.

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[canonbcguy]

What software are you using?

Dan Margulis, in his Professional Photoshop book, describes a method of selectively popping foliage using the Channel Mixer.

 

[Mark S Abeln]

Klingon? Really?

I don't frequently click on a link in a signature. But as a Star Trek fan, the Klingon reference caused me to check out Mark's blog:

http://therefractedlight.blogspot.com

Hilarious post! Informative too.

Glad you liked it!

Back when TNG was on the air, I had a girlfriend who was a big fan — and so I watched a lot of it. Classic.