{"id":11190,"date":"2014-08-13T14:39:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T14:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2014-08-13T15:27:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T15:27:53","slug":"color-and-graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11190","title":{"rendered":"Color and Graphics……"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have to be honest, I love graphics and color for color sake!\u00a0 This bicycle was leaned against a fantastic red painted wall in a little town in the Palouse region of Washington State.\u00a0 Simple enough image to make.\u00a0 First the technical data, Fuji X-T1 with the 55-200 at 129mm @ f 11.\u00a0 ISO 800.\u00a0 I’m thrilled with the basic result, straight shot, increased saturation, little spotting of white specks on the wall, and sharpening.\u00a0 So that is where I will start.<\/p>\n

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How about making the image appear like an HDR shot with Topaz Adjust Spicify filter dialed up to be very gritty.<\/p>\n

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Now for something less drastic how about the original shot with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 –\u00a0 Tonal Contrast.<\/p>\n

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Not gritty enough for you, how about Topaz Psychedelic!<\/p>\n

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Now let’s take the image with Tonal Contrast and take it into Topaz simplify and turn it into a painting.<\/p>\n

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Now let’s reduce the saturation!<\/p>\n

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As long as we are playing around let’s try a little NIK Silver Efex Pro to convert it to a monochrome image.<\/p>\n

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Hope this spurs your enthusiasm for trying some new approaches!\u00a0 You may or may not like any of these images, but it should give you some ideas about how to work on your own!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I have to be honest, I love graphics and color for color sake!\u00a0 This bicycle was leaned against a fantastic red painted wall in a little town in the Palouse region of Washington State.\u00a0 Simple enough image to make.\u00a0 First the technical data, Fuji X-T1 with the 55-200 at 129mm @ f 11.\u00a0 ISO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11190"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11200,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions\/11200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}