[Charlotte]

Originally Posted by P-E

Cheers Dave

Yes Jack I know what you mean about the background.......just hope Charlotte don't look in with her dodgy monitor although I think she might have got a new one

Just spotted this thread ... LOL dodgy monitor is a thing of the past P-E Looking at this on my new Samsung SyncMaster 226BW, all 22" of it I agree with Jack, the grass is slightly oversaturated, but not by much. I like your later lo-sat version, but the original really isn't that bad. In fact, comparing them more closely, you've lost some of the sharpness of the horse + rider in the lo-sat version Can't you just select the grass to desaturate that a bit The 'generic' one has too much cyan or blue, making the colour look unnatural, so I wouldn't go with that one.

All in all, I actually prefer the original

[simpbow]

No 3 on this antique P-E looks like the right shade.

[P-E]

Thanks all for your input re the colour of grass

I think I've settled for the Lo-Sat setting with the WB slightly tweaked (slightly cooler).......out of over a hundred shots I've picked out approx twenty to edit (all got grass in ).

Good to hear about the new monitor Charlotte .......will look out for your review

Cheers Ian.

EDIT: Charlotte, the last 3 examples have had no sharpening applied and have been resized for here only

[Charlotte]

Originally Posted by P-E

Good to hear about the new monitor Charlotte .......will look out for your review

Thanks for reminding me ... I have a few reviews to catch up with

Originally Posted by P-E

EDIT: Charlotte, the last 3 examples have had no sharpening applied and have been resized for here only

I didn't mean ref sharpening per se P-E, I mean because the rider + horse have also been desaturated in the lo-sat version, they don't look quite as sharp as they do in the hi-sat version, hence I suggested desaturating just the grass, but keeping the horse + rider nicely saturated as they are in the original Compare the 2 versions (from your set of 3 pic's) + you'll see what I mean, the difference is subtle but noticeable. In the lo-sat version the lower saturation has resulted in a reduction in contrast.

[P-E]

I think by the time have applied curves and sharpened the Lo-Sat one it should look OK........failing that everything is going in B&W

[Charlotte]

It does look fine P-E, I was just pointing out a minor observation, but honestly the lo-sat one looks good

Originally Posted by P-E

........looks like I will be re-doing all the images I processed yesterday

If you use Lightroom, which I know you've got, you could apply the same changed settings globally without having to fiddle about with individual images, except for fine tuning of course

[P-E]

LOL.....Lightroom is uninstalled again.......I have such a love hate relationship with it

[Charlotte]

What, you love to hate it Well, depending on how many images you have to re-do, it might be quicker to reinstall it than do a bunch of repetitive editing

[P-E]

I've not given up on it just yet Charlotte .......I can do the global changes in Capture One ...but I think the WB does just need tweaking in some of the images I have to edit.