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My Neon colors suck...


Wetstuff

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I attempt to take as good a pic as I can, then try all sorts of 'Adjustments' and cannot seem to get neon to look like NEON. I am mixing neon color parts with regular colors, so if I do something like oversaturate .. the others get buggered.

I have skimmed along the top 10% of photoshop for many years but this is beyond my skill set. I'd appreciate any thoughts... Thanks.

Jim Cancil
Salisbury MD
 
Here is an original photo (cropped and resized only to fit) ... The second up was/is White, so I typically would set the White Point with that.. The orange, Blue, Green and Yellow are actually quite brite. I am simply unable to bring them up to steam?! Thanks for looking at this..

Jim

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I think those labels have a layer of reflective plastic over them which gives you the "neon" effect in person but in a photo it just makes them look washed out because it's actually clear plastic over them.

I'm not sure how you want these to look, but you could try a Hue/Sat adjustment layer and if needed mask it to only affect the labels and then crank up the saturation.

I played with it briefly... this is what I got mostly from boosting saturation:

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Gau... A) I am going to re-shoot them. I shot these under a somewhat translucent, White cloth 'cover' for a better word to get a more even light without heavy shadows. I will re-shoot them in natural sunshine.

.. B) Masking the individual bits that need Saturation is the one idea that I think will help me most! I shudda known that even if I picked an individual color - it was going to have an overall effect if I did not limit it to the colors that warrant the effort. Thanks. I'll post some more results. Cheers. Jim
 
Let us know how they turn out.

In the pic I posted above I did not take the time to mask each label... I'm sure you can do a lot better with a mask and a bit more time :)
 
Gau... My ADD did not allow me the time to figure out how to 'mask' each color, but I did find another button. (Us Mac types tend to push a lot of buttons rather than RTFM.) The button I found was Vibrance under Adjustments. Hells Bells .. that punched up the colors real well. Here's just one example. Thanks for the help. Simply by asking a question in public tends to either find it directly or kicks me in the butt to look harder. Here is one example. Cheers.

Jim


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I know glass and the type of object your shooting is a lot different but i find i get the best results shooting on a grey background when it comes to bright colors...
 
DU: Good thought. I have some gray plastic that looks like cardboard that the sigh trade uses: Coreplast. It comes in 4x8ft sheet for about $8. Lots of colors including a "clear' that is cool. Cheers.

Jim
 
Right on, try and remember one thing though, once you get close enough to the object, depending on what type of camera your using the camera may focus on the shiny background, try using a background with a matte finish and btw, your second pic looks mucho bettero!!
 
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