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A Quick 1-2 minute fix:
Set Brush to "Darken" blend mode, select a nearby color and paint. Walla.

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Comment by amoringello posted on manual chromatic aberration removal at 08/04/2009 - 03:02

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If you can Select Color Range at all, you can use the Hue/Saturation to re-color via Colorize to help match the background.

But if you cannot easily get Photoshop to detect where the CA starts or ends, then you really have little choice but to make changes by hand.

You might try a small brush set to "Colorize" mode, select a colour from a nearby edge and paint the desired color over the CA. This will change the color but not affect the texture (luminance) very much on nearby edges. Therefore be a lot easier than cloning or some other painful methods of fixing CA.

Anyway, post a an example, or at least a cropped section that is indicative of the problem and some of us will surely have fun trying to come up with simple yet quality procedures for you to use.

Comment by amoringello posted on manual chromatic aberration removal at 06/04/2009 - 17:51

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Short and simple answer for your short question,
1. Select Color Range of the offensive areas.
2. Hue/Saturation, Desaturate the selected area.

You may need some manual tweaks and touch-ups of areas missed by the automated selection areas. All in all, a lot less work than any other method I've seen or used.

Comment by amoringello posted on manual chromatic aberration removal at 06/04/2009 - 10:59

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Try a really bright flash?

Or try to do it when the skies are not so bright. You will have a hard time getting both the sky and dark birds to expose properly in mid-day sun.

You can try exposing more for the bird, and letting the sky go white. I think you might end up with other high contrast issues on the edges of the bird.

Comment by amoringello posted on Cropping and 'shades of black' advice at 03/04/2009 - 17:57

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The only time I need to log back in is when I log in using another computer. Something is stored on the server as well as locally. If these do not match, you need to log in.

I did have a situation where I had to log in every few minutes at the start of the new web site change long ago.
You may want to contact support... They had me do something special with clearing cache and some other piece of info that I generally would not have thought of, and that seemed to work.

Comment by amoringello posted on Short login time at 03/04/2009 - 11:33

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Quote:
I've had the k10 totally lockup so that no button will function even when i turned it off the lcd on the top was still on.So i removed the battery and left it for a minute or 2 re-inserted the battery and everything was ok and has been since A bit of an xfile
Exactly the same thing here. Drove an hour to shoot in the morning. Camera was locked up. I just drove right back home. Didn't think to try removing the batteries until after I got home... which of course fixed the problem in a minute.

Comment by amoringello posted on TV mode in K10 at 26/03/2009 - 11:05

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Well, I still have to say it is a little "flat".

Thanks for the link, I thought it was going to be another one of those very poorly photoshopped images. (such as at http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com)

Comment by amoringello posted on Photoshopping at 24/03/2009 - 10:53

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Sometimes you just get carried away by it.



Most of you have an eye for this so what is wrong?
Well, to start, it lacks content and is a little flat.

(Was there supposed to be an image or link in there?)

Comment by amoringello posted on Photoshopping at 24/03/2009 - 10:30

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In the past Epson was notorious for the heads drying out if you didn't print regularly. Let them set a week or two and you spend a lot of money on ink as it has to self clean to print clearly again. Canon does not seem to be as bad. I don't know if the newer Epsons still suffer that problem.

I bought the Canon pro9000 (does 13x19inch == A3?) printing, and will print on CD/DVDs if you buy it outside of the US.

Prices should be lower on this "older" printer, but it produces very nice prints.

Downside of the Canon pro9000, it is limited to 13x19, where-as similar Epson models can print 13 x "Any" on rolled paper. Also, Canon removed the CD printing capability from US models. Argh!

Although, I have not see enough differences in the end results to warrant choosing one model or brand over another.

The review sites have enough pluses or minuses on each one that I never found them to be very helpful in making a decision based on the end results.

When it came right down to it, I finally chose the Canon simply based on prior experiences I had with Canon v.s. Epson (I never had an Epson I liked -- plenty of people had just the reverse).

Comment by amoringello posted on Inkjet Printer for Photos at 23/03/2009 - 16:52

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Just have to add another recommendation on the pile for the 55-300.
Can't add much more to what has been said, but I do feel this lens is pretty darned nice for the price and zoom range.

Comment by amoringello posted on which telephoto zoom? at 23/03/2009 - 16:18

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