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[jaytrumpet]

Athol,

It's looking good and I agree about overexposed and his face seems to be mainly yellow. First I played around by duplicating the later and having that layer at multiply. That didn't help the face, but it did help with his graduation gown. I'm wondering if you could (even on a separate copy) work on the face by using the blue channel for the B/W and use some of the tips on the recent posts and the link BJTX posted.

It's great to see you having fun.  ;) We got more like em in the hold.
Margie

Margie,

I have tried, but cannot find the post you mentioned by BJTX. Can you please send me the link?

Jay

[bjtx]

Hi Jay,
To save Margie time, I'll jump in -- 
Probably, she is referring to the link I posted pointing to the many articles by Janine Smith on Tipsquirrel. 
http://www.tipsquirrel.com/index.php/author/landailyn/

[Mhayes]

Thanks Betty.

Jay, a good way to find an individual post of a volunteer is to click on their name on a post (need to be logged in) and it will take you to their profile page. Once you are there, scroll to the bottom and look for: "Show the last post of this person." This will bring up all of their post and you can scroll through all of their post. Other than having a certain post bookmarked, it would be hard to find.

Margie

[jaytrumpet]

Thanks Margie,

It's going to take me a while to get used to how this site works and all the nuances of the forum.

I downloaded my selected image and started working on it today. I in a while, know once it is near completion, I will want to post it on this forum for review and suggestions before I upload it to the quality control judges. That will bring about more questions. I got a Photobucket account the other day and I believe that you link your forum message to the image on that site, correct? Do you resize the image before you upload it to photobucket? If so what size do you need  post on this forum or does it automatically resize to fit the window?

Jay

[Tess (Tassie D)]

Hi Jay, the photo will automatically resize for the forum but we usually suggest you make a copy of your work in progress and 'save for web' so the file size is not too large. Also the copy should not have any exif data on it.

[G3User]

A suggestion Tess

When saving for the web don't reduce the size. Having access to the largest image possible allows those commenting the best chance to find detail which otherwise could be lost.

Athol

[jaytrumpet]

In Photoshop when you save for web what "quality" setting do you recommend? It defaults at 60, do you go higher or lower than that? Also, do you put the metadata setting on "none" or on "copyright and contact info?"

Jay

[Mhayes]

Jay, good advice from Athol and Tess on how to save. May I also mention that you keep a folder on your hard drive and label it Photobucket.  The reason is that by keeping it in that folder you won't run the risk of deleting the photos and the link to Photobucket. Once the photo is moved or deleted you will no longer having it shown in the post. Here is a tutorial: http://www.operationphotorescue.org/forum/index.php/topic,2002.0.html

I make a 2nd copy of my work and save it to my Photobucket folder and in Photoshop I go up to Image and change the original resolution from 300 to 120 dpi. The only time I might keep it at 300 dpi is when the photo is very small like a 3.5 x 3.5. I save this photo with a different extension. I also go up Edit and change the Profile to sRGB. If your workspace has stayed at that, then you don't need to worry. When I work on an image with many layers I am working in Adobe RGB, but then change my profile back to sRGB as that is what the printer wants for the color profile.

If you are doing Photobucket I would put the copyright as Operation Photo Rescue. I really don't bother with the rest.

Margie