Backstage Hippies [Pt.1]

I collected some pictures of the backstage taken by myself and my friends. We did love grayscale so we preferred making it as grayscale. Some of them were also edited on Photoscape.

Editing on Photoscape : Overexposed Photo

Editing foto itu selain lewat Adobe Photoshop atau Corel PHOTO-PAINT, ternyata lebih mudah lewat Photoscape (walaupun lewat Adobe atau Corel bisa bikin hasil yang lebih 'wah'). Tapi di kasus ini, Kazu mau jelasin tentang editing foto yang overexposed lewat Photoscape.

Photoscape ini aplikasi buat editing foto atau file gambar (tapi lebih tepatnya foto). Aplikasi ini bisa secara gratis di download di http://www.photoscape.org/.  Dari segi size, aplikasi ini ngga nyabet memori sebanyak Corel atau Adobe Photoshop. Tapi dari segi fasilitas, yeah.. beberapa fitur dasar bisa kita dapetin disini. Kalo dibandingin, Photoscape ini bisa Kazu bilang setara sama situs editing online Picnik.

Foto di atas jelas banget keliatan overexposurenya, dengan brightness dari objek yang terlihat sangat tinggi dibanding backgroundnya. Buat nyiasatin background yang terlalu gelap dan objek yang terlalu cerah, bisa pake menu 'Backlight'. Disini, Kazu pake setting Backlight > (+/-) 100% buat nyiasatin objek yang terlalu cerah.

Nah, keliatan kan sekarang backgroundnya lebih cerah (dilihat dari warna-warna terang atap-atap bangunan). Tapi, tetep si objek terlihat paling cerah. Maka Kazu pilih opsi Bright, Color> Darken > Low (Gray Tone)

Masih belum memberikan hasil yang maksimal, Kazu pake lagi opsi Deepen yang ada di menu 'Bright, Color'. Kazu pilih preset Middle dengan menyertakan Gray Tone.

Setelah selesai dengan opsi Deepen, sekarang Kazu mau pindah ke opsi Colorize yang bisa dicapai melalui menu Bright, Color > Colorize. Disini, Kazu set secara manual si foto ini mau punya color tone dengan warna apa. Kazu suka sekali warna biru jadi Kazu pilih warna biru. Jangan lupa set nilai saturation sama levelnya. Previewnya keliatan di belakang.

Selanjutnya, kalau masih belum puas dengan hasil fotonya bisa diset lagi dengan langsung klik menu Bright, Color. Kemudian box seperti diatas akan muncul. Set ulang lagi nilai kedalaman warna, kecerahan, dan kontrasnya. Terus cek ulang nilai exposure (kalau fotonya overexposure lebih baik nilainya jangan lebih dari 1 supaya si objek bisa keliatan, tapi jangan juga berlebihan nanti fotonya kelihatan ngga kontras). Slider 'Gamma Bright' akan lebih berpengaruh buat menentukan nilai kontras dan kecerahannya. Dan seperti biasa di bagian paling bawah ada slider saturation. Previewnya langsung di belakang. Setelah selesai tinggal klik oke.

Sebenernya fotonya udah jadi. Tapi berhubung pengen sedikit beda, Kazu mau coba nge-swivel fotonya. Setelah mengubah sudutnya, akhirnya fotonya jadi deh..

Jadi deh :P lain kali fotonya pas lagi ngga hujan..

Kalifa : I LOVE IT WHEN IT'S BLUE!

I had taken several pictures of Kalifa and yeah I loved those pictures. I took one of my favorite and edited the picture on Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

The picture above was the original file from my favorite one. If you view it closely or closer, you'll see a lot of grains (noise) and it doesn't look so cool. I found a big area of noises so I decided to edit the picture.

After the picture had been loaded, I clicked 'Adjust' menu and chose 'Image Adjustment Lab' submenu. The box like shown above would appear. It had 2 pictures, the picture in the right side was the preview of the settings. I set the temperature, saturation, highlights, midtones, shadows, and else. The changes were shown above. But, it looked like the temperature of the picture was warm and actually I loved when it was blue so I made new settings of temperature.

Nah, by setting the temperature level, saturation, and other triggers I would get new-cool picture. Note two snapshots under the two main and preview pictures. I could call it 'preset'. I loved the new one so I chose the 'blue' one.

But it wasn't blue enough for me so again I had to set the tone curve.

You might try to adjust the tone by yourself by dragging the curve, adding nodes to create a curve and more. I added a node and created a curve, dragged and adjust it until I got the result I wanted. And the picture above looked a bit saturated like old-photograph :D

Noise! The picture still had an amount of noise area. I could eliminate the noise by using Smart Blur effect. I clicked on 'Effect' menu, chose 'Blur' and chose 'Smart Blur'.

Smart Blur could smartly eliminate noise appearing in the picture. But, it'd be better to not use a large amount of blur. I set it into 4 and it was enough to eliminate the noise. Okay, so then what else would I do? Yap! I got the result and..

Tadaaaaa!

Kalifa : I Love When It's Blue!