Wed 2 May 2007
Improve your photography with classical art.
Posted by brain under Art , Photography , Technology[21] Comments
I have just posted my howto article about using classical art to make expert color corrections to photos.
[21] Comments
[21] Comments
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Wow! Those some amazing results. One question though: How do you select which classical art to match to a particular photo?
May 4th, 2007 at 1:37 am
very nice.
out of curiosity, what do you use to process your HDR photos?
May 4th, 2007 at 2:24 am
wrique: I keep a directory of about 30 or so of my favorite images. I load all of them in and just browse through them looking for good matches.
May 4th, 2007 at 2:25 am
andrew: I use photomatix from hdrsoft
May 4th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Thanks so much for sharing this technique. Very generous of you!
May 4th, 2007 at 10:26 am
This is exactly what I’m seeking. Is there any way to pull this off using The Gimp? Maybe if I can figure out how to use the target artwork to create a color range for the “Map Color Range” filter? Thank you for the cool tip.
May 4th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
m1tch3ll: I have been trying to get the same effect with The GIMP but have not been able to get it to do it.
A few people posted to digg about the “Sample Colorize” but that casts more of a overall tone. Kinda like doing sepia to an image.
It makes me wonder if there is some ImageMagick or netpbm util that might do this.
May 4th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Well, so far my attempts have produced rather muddy or uninteresting results, but I figure that it’s a question of selecting a painting whose palette is close enough to the original (light to light, and dark to dark).
May 4th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
I did a bit more research, but do not see much on true color match nor HDR for The Gimp. Your post turned me on to both of those concepts, so I’m itching to get a newer copy of Photoshop and start experimenting.
Thanks for adding more complications to my already busy life!
Cheers!
May 4th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
What has me confused is this: you’re using a digital photo of a painting as the source for the color profile to adjust the other photo? Isn’t there some “slip between cup and lip” as far as the camera faithfully recording the painting? I mean, my eye sees color I like in a scene often, but then the camera doesn’t seem to nail that same color.
This is an amazing technique. I’m going to try to use it for photo illustration (I’m a writer, not a photographer, but most times I have no choice but to take my own photos). For instance, indoor portraits with flash always look way too flat and white — I like the color balance of no flash and ambient light much more. It looks natural. But with no flash, I get bad focus and motion blur — there’s just not enough light. If I could get the sharpness of the flash image with the warm color of the no-flash image, that would really rock. I wish you would explain at more length.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Snowpea:
The trick is to keep a directory full of images and use the “match color” and just try a few. I can tell you from my experience that the Vermeer painting “Milkmaid” improves just about anything.
If you use American Gothic you get a really sharp contrast out of the images.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Great tip.
This article let me know how to use the software more effectively.
May 8th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Wow! This is really impressive. amazingly simple technique for some really great results.
Gotta get my hands on the new PS so I can try this out (I’m not an artist, but this makes me want to pick up a camera)
May 9th, 2007 at 11:06 am
I’ll give it a try!
May 9th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I am enjoying it fully . PLEASE TELL US MORE!!
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing trick!
May 11th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
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May 25th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Brain, I found this article at http://www.netscape.com – very interesting tips!
Would you consider publishing this article at http://www.featurepics.com
?
Please check our “Photo Club” section at http://www.featurepics.com/News/News.aspx
Thank you!
June 27th, 2007 at 6:01 am
What is the software you are using to do this? Its one of the most amazing transformations i have seen, with just a single step.
Cheers…
August 10th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
They are amazing!
Please… ¿What Photomatix I have PM 2.5.1, and I do not see the Image option.
Thanks.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Thanks for this tutorial, my first tries are here:
http://philippaphotography.blogspot.com/2008/02/classical-art-colour-match.html
Love the effect!
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