Onde di prosciutto on Flickr.I was in rome last week and on tuesday my children, my parents and I went to Castel Gandolfo for lunch. This is one of my favorite places because it offers the most genuine italian food. And prosciutto is a blessing for my tongue… In the last post I mentioned a name: Nicola. He gave the heads to up to go check out Dan Margulis and what he has to offer. I have been reading his book for the past 24 hours and I have learned a lot about CMYK and Lab. Incredibly I thought to give it a try with an untouched RAW image in my sleeve. I chose the prosciutto picture because it offered a lot of detail and DOF. Entering in the Lab color space, I adjusted the lightness curve (as a mask) slightly to give that little extra pop. I then went to a and b and moved one X axis lower left dot to minus 90 and the upper right to +90. Afterwards I entered the channels (not through the mask but the picture) and selected only the lightness. And there I used the unsharp mask filter to add more detail to it without damaging the other colors. Et voila’! The image looks ( to me) breathtaking! Once again I’d like to thank Nicola Cocco for his awesome tip and Simon Barber for giving me that little push. Too bad I didn’t use this before to finish my 5th assignment…

Onde di prosciutto on Flickr.

I was in rome last week and on tuesday my children, my parents and I went to Castel Gandolfo for lunch.
This is one of my favorite places because it offers the most genuine italian food. And prosciutto is a blessing for my tongue…

In the last post I mentioned a name: Nicola. He gave the heads to up to go check out Dan Margulis and what he has to offer. I have been reading his book for the past 24 hours and I have learned a lot about CMYK and Lab. Incredibly I thought to give it a try with an untouched RAW image in my sleeve. I chose the prosciutto picture because it offered a lot of detail and DOF.
Entering in the Lab color space, I adjusted the lightness curve (as a mask) slightly to give that little extra pop. I then went to a and b and moved one X axis lower left dot to minus 90 and the upper right to +90. Afterwards I entered the channels (not through the mask but the picture) and selected only the lightness. And there I used the unsharp mask filter to add more detail to it without damaging the other colors. Et voila’! The image looks ( to me) breathtaking!
Once again I’d like to thank Nicola Cocco for his awesome tip and Simon Barber for giving me that little push. Too bad I didn’t use this before to finish my 5th assignment…