[Theo Van laar]

There is a program called BPM analyzer. I find this program very usefull in determinating the BPM of a song.

https://www.mixmeister.com/bpmanalyzer/bpmanalyzer.asp

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

There is also another possibility:

Open the photograph you woulf like to edit.
Add a new layer by pressing Alt + the new layer button (or Ctrl Shift N).(fig 1).
Select for MODUS. OVERLAY
Select 50% GRAY
press OK

press B
select a size and a feather you like.
Set the overlay for this tool to 30% (see fig 2)

Set white to your foreground color.
Paint over the dark shadow to make it lighter until you are satisfied.

Before:

After:

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

Steven wrote: ‘The only challenge with using curves is that they’re not numeric – By using levels I can do gamma changes numerically. Same with my Hue/Sat and B/C controls.’

With the LEVELS tool, you can do the same trick as with the CURVES tool:

Open the document and add the LEVELS adjustment layer: (fig 1)

In this example I have selected the MIDTONES (fig 2)

And I adjusted the RED channel only for the MIDTONES.

Even the definition of SHADOWS, MIDTONES and HIGHLIGHTS can be done numerical. Its no problem to show your friend how it works…

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

Steven wrote:’ Transferring those adjustment layers to another image is only easy if it’s the same pixel dimension. In Combustion, I can save a CC setting and apply it to a completely different image, size being irrelevent.’

I don’t know why you think it is not possible in photoshop. I can copy adjustment layers simply by dragging from one document to another independent of the resolution. It doesn’t matter whether the resolution of the donor document is larger, equal or smaller than the resolution of the recipient document.

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

Hi Steven,

As a leader of the COW Photoshop forum, I want to apologize for the unfriendly behavior of Gary and Bob. I can assure you that this way of talking is not common use at this forum. I hope that those guys just had a bad day and will make their apologize to you too….

Now about your question:

Steven wrote: “Also, in PS I have to create multiple layers to do what I need, one for levels in shadow, midtone, saturation and contrast.”

Ofcourse you can do this also in photoshop in just one adjustment layer (in photoshop there are usually many ways to achieve the same thing).

Open your file that needs different adjustments in the Shadows, Midtones and Highlights and add a adjusrment layer for CURVES (fig 1)

The lower part of the curves adjusts the SHADOWS, THE MIDDLEPART ADJUSTS THE midtones AND THE UPPER PART ADJUSTS THE highlights. In this first exanple (fig 2) I adjusted the red channel only in the SHADOWS.

Now, I have used the same adjustment layer (and the same graph to adjust the blue channel only for the HIGHLIGHTS (see fig 3)

I will be clear that the midtones can be adjusted independently also in the same graph.

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

Bob Peterson wrote: “I don’t think anyone can give you a simple explanation of what you do not understand.”

But at least, I will give it a try….

Steve Timothy wrote:‘Is there a plug-in or way to do 3-way color correction in photoshop?’

Yes, similarly to the tools in your video-editing software, you can apply CURVES or LEVELS to only HIGHLIGHTS, MIDTONES or SHADOWS. In fact, it is very easy.

Open the photo with the shadows you want to adjust (fig 1)

Add the layer with CURVES. I adjusted the RED channel just for demonstration. You see that the whole picture from black to white is adjusted with red color (fig 2)

Go to the MASK tab in the CURVES layer (fig 3)

At the bottom of this window, choose KLEURBEREIK (or whatever it is called in your language (fig 4).

In the popup window that opens, choose SHADOWS . The example shows that the red color adjustment is just applied to the SHADOWS part of the picture). You can also select MIDTONES or HIGHLIGHTS and just see for yourself what happens.

And ofcourse, you can define yourself what is called SHADOWS, MIDTONES or HIGHLIGHTS. If needed, I can explain how to do that.

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

I would just start with the MULTIPLY MODE trick which is described here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/899949#899997
Theo

[Theo Van laar]

It looks like you accidently switched on MOTION BLUR…

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

Muting a video or audio track can be done very easily in the trackheader (the button with the ‘forbidden’ sign). Add a new audio track (INSERT-AUDIO TRACK) and drag your song from the explorer tab (or from e.g. windows explorer) to this new audio track.

And ofcourse you can also delete the original audio first select the audio and video event and ungroup them by selecting U).

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

‘If no-one else gets what you’re on about Bruce, I do and it’s really getting on my nerves! I’ve never had this problem before either, but I’m working on our new 64bit Windows 7 machine and the thumnails on the tracks keep vanishing’

Bruz was talking about thumbnauls in the capture bin. If you are talking about thumbnails on the events on the timeline, you can try Ctrl + Shift + W

Theo