OK, I am attempting to attach a screenshot of what the file we're supposed to work on looks like to be sure this is the way it is supposed to be at the outset of this little workshop.

I have looked at the tutorials but will have to embed them in my brain, I think.

P.S. Well for some reason I can't make an attachment here. I will try uploading it to my own Lightzone Test gallery.

P.S.S. I am now using the one stored in my gallery to post here.

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Oh, yes - the Relight 2 layer can be deleted (just click on the x top right), or you can play with the sliders.

The Shadows slider lifts shadows as you slide to right.
The Highlights slider brightens highlights as you slide to left.

and opposite effect as you slide opposite directions.

The Detail slider controls how local the contrast effect will be... 0 has the effect of softening contrast - 1 is neutral 1.5 and above gets more dramatic.

The Depth is a wider version of Detail - I usually have this all the way over to the right.

Fuzz is how pixel level transitions are handled (say for bright to dark horizon edges in landscapes) - 0.28 seems to give the smoothest transitions.

Have a play with different Blending Modes, and use the Tool Opacity slider to control the strength of the layer.

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Thanks Brian but can you tell me is that the way the original one you had us upload looked? My reason for asking is that I don't recall changing it and saving it and wanted to be sure I hadn't messed the original up.

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No, it was blank (just the two RAW adjustment layers for the E-P1).

You don't have to worry about messing anything up - you can just download the copy from above at any time.

I've only just realised, in organising this workshop that the jpegs can be used to share lightzone post processing stacks like this.

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OK, thanks. Who knows how I did that or perhaps it was the beginning of my "artistic edit". Glad to know.

(As for the jpegs part.. I had to resize the file and the only way I could figure out how to do it to make it small enough was probably convoluted. I added the screenshot to iPhoto, exported it in a smaller size and saved it to upload.)

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Angus has just posted a rendition here :


And yes, everyone please feel free to post more visualisations.

If you want to upload a visualisation 'in progress' for us to discuss here before submitting it to our Contest Gallery - you can click on "Go Advanced" below the message editor here, and manage attachments.

Cheers

Brian

Cheers

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Cool!

I'm on iPhone (school run) - will take a closer look on my return.

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here's my attempt - conveted to B&W and given a "hard" look

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Hm, yes that was pretty much what I did, but the image ended up being 2mb large. I noticed that your files are much smaller, also in physical size. But when I convert the image to make it smaller, all the adjustment info are lost.