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Eugene
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hillsborough, CA
 
2006-11-09, 09:29

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Originally Posted by NosferaDrew View Post
Originally shot in color with my 7 megapixel camera, I made it grayscale, sharpened it, cropped it a bit, then reduced the image size.

Full-sized shot here, if you (or someone) wants to give a brief how-to for achieving better results. It would be greatly appreciated!
Using one of channel-mixing the techniques listed above, I'd probably reduce the red influence in the photo to blacken the brake lights, ignore green altogether and push up the blues. So, 30% red and 70% blue, or even more lopsided.

Also resist the urge to sharpen photos. Your camera already does it for you, and your original looked incredible already. The standard Photoshop sharpen filter is usually way too drastic and can magnify noise, contrast, etc. If you must, use Unsharp Mask instead.
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