any times, if I’m getting my exposures right, and there is adequate lighting, i.e., I’m not too deep and the visibility is not too poor, the resulting photos will clean up nicely with a simple levels adjustment and maybe an added contrast curve. Then there are the other times when maybe the lighting was not [...]
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Catalina Island, Church Rock 12-02
Dive trip photos improved with photoshop levels and curves. Used “cheater curves” on worst photos to see affected levels adjustments then readjust or delete cheater curve. Used second targeted levels adjustment to further improve effects of poor lighting.
Catalina 9-14-02
…At this point and time I was tuning up the Highlights and Shadow, and allowing the mids to fall into place. This still allows the color cast of the ocean to show through, except for on the very shallow shots. I was still timid about adjusting the mids, knowing that this gives the potential to eliminate ocean color cast completely, which I do not like…
Catalina Island 4-27-02
… I had already had many years experience color correcting and retouching with photoshop in high end printing, but underwater photos were new to me and posed a set of problems all their own that I had not encountered.
to the new home of my underwater scuba photo galleries. Read on and discover why Photoshop should be every underwater photographer's best friend.