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Jerry Ranch · 2 years ago

Yes sir..great tip
I wish there was a way to specify RGB, CMYK, or other color scheme values when making these changes..so one could select a known color
Any ideas?
Jerry

Andriy · 2 years ago

Nicely written tutorial. The only thing I would do differently is select Fill- first to clear selection totally and then use Brush+ to paint over small areas that require hue adjustment. Just a little time saver.

picmax · 2 years ago

Andriy,

Typically when you click on the plus, the previously applied adjustment is totally gone. Unless you accidentally clicked on the minus first, you will need to use the fill/remove tool to remove them completely because clicking on the plus selection brush will not clear out the effect for you in this case.

Max

Andriy · 2 years ago

Lol, I thought my NX just glitching sometimes with selections. Now it all makes sense, thanks for the tip.

Richard · 1 year ago

Max:

Outstanding tutorial! Very, very well done here.

Your well-written text, coupled with careful and informative screen captures, makes this tutorial easy to understand.

I look forward to more of your work; you are filling an important niche here!

Richard

Bill Griffin · 1 year ago

This was a real " eye opener " ( sorry for the pun ). I decide to experiment a bit further and tested a portrait using Levels and Curves. I added an anchor point on the whites of the eyes and low & behold am able to lighten them as well.

Keep feeding me more.

Bill

Jeff Gatscher · 1 year ago

Very nice info...can you tell me if there is any difference (pros or cons) in using a color point instead of using the LCH adjustment for the eyes...I have been using color points to color the eyes and now I'm thinking maybe the LCH is perhaps better??

Why I use the color points is because I can pick any color for painting with and I can also put some extra points in the whites which makes the painting easier to do and I can be a little sloppy with my brush.

On another topic...has anyone come up with a decent batch settings file to bulk process portraits? I've been experimenting with the new picture controls and haven't found a good formula for skin tones and glamor studio portraits....alot of tutorials for this kind of processing using CS2/CS3, but not much on using NX (which is my tool of choice...

thanks in advance

picmax · 1 year ago

Jeff,

There are some differences between them. The color control point is nice because it allows you to select the exact color. The downside of it is that user does not have good control on the areas it will affect. If you turn on "Show selection", you will find that it affects the black and white areas of the eye. Not big deal, just some extra paint job with the selection brush.

The Hue adjustment in LCH does not affect neutral colors so black/gray/white remains black/gray/white.

On the other question: I am not sure what effect you are looking for in batch processing portraits. If you can point me to an example PS processing, I will see if I can come up with something similar in Capture NX.

Thanks.

Max

Charles Cullum · 1 year ago

Has anyone come up with a way to change eye color in Adobe 7.0?