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Michael Reichmann's Workflow

Michael Reichmann is well known through his Luminous Landscape website. He also produces a regular dvd magazine. In his latest issue (Volume 4, Issue 13) he continues a discussion of his workflow.

Raw Converter

This is the place to do color balance, levels, contrast, saturation and contrast.

In Photoshop

• Crop - doing this first eliminates the extraneous from subsequent corrections.
• Local Contrast Enhancement
  • uses Unsharp Mask for contrast enhancement.
  • Mask - 20; Radius - 50; Threshhold - 0
  • flip on and off to see if it enhances.
• Dust Removal
  • Clone Tool - size the brush, select nearby "good" area, click to fix.
  • Bandaid - uses primarily for skin blemishes.
• Sharpening
  • Disparages Unsharp Mask
  • Recommends PhotoKit Sharpener ($100)
  • Three stage sharpening
  • First Stage: Capture
    • Makes up for lack of edge sharpness in digital images.
    • Use on all images.
• Sizing
• Creative Sharpening
  • Second stage of PhotoKit Sharpener.
  • Generates a sharpening brush to be applied locally, e.g., to eyes.
  • Optional
• Output Sharpening
  • Final stage sharpening
  • Customized to paper, resolution.
• Convert to B&W
  • Channel Mizer - keep sum of sliders at 100%
  • Convert to B&W Pro
    • highlyrecommends
• Noise Reduction
  • Noise Ninja or Neat Image
  • He slightly prefers Noise Ninja