Playing his Uke (ukulele)

I am learning how to use filters in post-processing; the burn tool, and

the clone brush. How did I do?

Janice, you have considerable posterization, especially in the skin tones. That may be intended, it may be a result of your downsizing or it could be due to the processes that you are using. Without knowing whether it was intended or not makes it difficult to access the quality of your use of the
clone and burn tools.

Posterization is the bands of colors that you see in all the flesh areas of the photograph. On the arm under the instrument there is a band of reddish purple then a weird green and inside that a deep pink. On the hand playing the instrument it goes from the reddish purple to orange to deep pink to yellow to a blown out flesh color. Is the posterization something you intended to be in the image?

This is a learning process for me too.  I never use the tools you mention! The blues and blacks are beautiful and so is the guitar!

I did use posterization in this photo. I see the green in the left arm now. I didn't intend to make it that green. I wonder if I could tone it down some. I am so grateful to people like you two, who see details that my eyes miss. What do you think of the burn and clone that I did?

Hi Janice,

Nice work.

I have been working with processing filters for 25 years now, and I still have not exhausted all that can be accomplished with a digital image.

Here is a simple "one button" filter that I developed a few years ago. It just enhances the features, changes the levels and color saturation to a pre- set point. The filter was originally developed to enhance color and black&white slides of biological samples.

Mike

What is this "one button" filter, Mike? I like it a lot.

Hi Janice,

The one button process was a specific series of filter operations combined to enhance certain types of scientific imagery. It was used by law enforcement agencies, and aerospace companies .

With today's newer Photoshop versions, you can create your own automatic sequence that will apply to any number of your  images.

These sequences can be saved . They can often be started by using one of th e"F' keys on your keyboard.

Best Regards,  Mike

Thank you, Mike. I will have to work on that. (I am currently busy making a small quilt for my Mom out of my Dad's shirts.)