Thread: Cars and Coffee, Irvine Pics - July 3, 2010 (Ferrari 458 edition)

great shots!

Following my buddy's F430 on the way to C&C yesterday...

Sick pics 458 is money

someone's 458 is looking oh so sexy!

Awesome pics Richard! Looked like I missed a good show.

Originally Posted by richardw

Click for bigger image since I'm not sure how big of a picture to post.

So basically the "General - Punch" preset in Lightroom pushes up the Clarity to +50 and Vibrance to +25 (both from 0 originally). It's a subtle change, but the effect can be seen in the GIF I made. That's really all I do with these pictures since it'd be a pain to go through 100 or so shots and give each one a unique treatment.

According to the internets, clarity enhances midtone contrast sort of like using a low-amount, high-radius unsharp mask in photoshop. So I just tried out an unsharp mask in photoshop to see. Settings were Amount 10%, Radius 100, Threshold 0. Seems to give a similar effect.

Hope that helps out. Thanks for the comments.

thanks for the explanation. I'll give it a try tonight but I have CS4

Originally Posted by Dilancer

Awesome pics Richard! Looked like I missed a good show.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by cayenne_ksa

thanks for the explanation. I'll give it a try tonight but I have CS4

CS4 also has unsharp mask, so you shouldn't have any problems.

Originally Posted by richardw

I honestly like this vehicle .. great look and change and very adventurous for an American company.