Saturation/desaturation brush

[Leen Koper]

Today, working on a wedding image I had to desaturate some skin tones.
There is a selection brush, a dodge brush, a burn brush, but I couldnot discover a saturation/desaturation brush.
I know I can make a selection etc, but often a brush like this would be very helpful.
I cannot imagine the Adobe people didnot think of an item like this, so am I missing something? Or aren't these people as clever as I am? ;-))

Leen

[Jodi Frye]

Leen, the sponge tool has saturate and desaturate ;)

[Leen Koper]

Hmm, you may be right.
Never used that tool until now. So I really missed something and the Adobe people rise in my esteem again.
;-)

Leen

[Richard Coencas]

Leen,

Jodi hit it on the mark. As ususal!

[Leen Koper]

I happen to have a rather well shaped nose. I suppose there is a lot under it I don't know about.

Leen

[Pete D]

Richard,

> "Just thought you'd like to know the "why" of it".
>

Cool. Thanks for sharing this Rich. I remember doing some of this in the
darkroom excepting the "sponge" thing?

Pete

[Leen Koper]

Rich, thanks for referring to techniques of "my black and white darkroom past". At the moment I hear the Supremes on tv, so it's all retro today.

Pete, we used a sponge with developer on high key portraits to control the slowed down process. This way we saw what came op on the paper and as soon as there was almost enough detail we used some fresh developer with a tip of the sponge on the eyes. If the eyes had sufficient density we did put it into the fixer.

This technique worked quite well, but you were always afraid they ordered extra copies. This process was pretty hard to repeat exactly the same way. You could hardly do without a large waste bin. ;-))

Leen

[Leen Koper]

Jodi, I know you 're right.

But, I 'm living in a small comunity, many competitors and a lot of people thinking photography is about nude girls on white sandy beaches and palm trees. They all want a piece of the relatively small cake. Now it is extremely busy for almost half a year and I don't know how it will be in a few months, although customers are coming from further away than ever. So now I've got to make the money to do investments like a large format printer and to be able to retire earlier.

Photography is my love and life and if I can retire earlier from the studio I can spend more time on a personal portfolio.

Leen

[Leen Koper]

I certainly will!!!!!

Leen