A little Tonal Contrast will do ya

I did some playing around with a different technique to further finish processing pictures. It involves using the photographic software filter called “Tonal Contrast” in NIK Color Efex Pro 3. Basically the filter allows you to increase the tonal contrast (like it says) within the image as well as the color saturation. Below are “before” images processed like normal and then “after” that were further processed using the tonal contrast filter. It gives the pictures a vivid hand painted look. Without a lot of foo-fir-aaa (technical term), check them out and see what you think {click on the images to enlarge them, so you can see them better}.

My favorite is the last one of the old truck, interesting in the “before” but very dynamic in the “after”.

Some observations in trying this out, is that it works great on landscapes, objects and such, but don’t try it on people, it tends to do bad things to their skin complexion.

Hope you found this interesting, that’s it for now.

David Gralian
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