I’m ruefully laughing because I’m engaged in a fight with my printer/photoshop while using the same tools you just wrote about. I decided to go full Rothko on a perfectly good photo of a small boat floating in a nearby lake - one of those days when the lake reflected the sky and clouds so perfectly that it looks like the little boat is floating in infinity. But noooo. I decided I had to add several inches to the bottom of the image, so the water falls away in a smooth blue gradation down to dark. I wanted a blue you could fall into. I first tried “match” the water colors at the bottom of the image with the new gradation tool. Not good. Legacy gradation next. Better, but not quite. Adjustment tools. No. Several different Firefly editions to extend the image, delivered, not quite right, to hilarious ai interpretations of what might be hiding at the bottom of a body of water. The closest possibilities look pretty good on my screen - but in print they all have a subtle layer of gray going across the print around the middle of the gradation. I think it’s ai or content aware adaptation of grayish cloud-mist edges reconstituted in a 2” band of gray blue instead of simply fading out. It’s turned into the battle of the gray band. There’s nothing wrong with the original picture. But it’s me against photoshop now, and I don’t want to lose a battle with my tools! I would have at it again today, but I have a Thursday deadline for other stuff, so I’ll leave it alone for a while.
I’m ruefully laughing because I’m engaged in a fight with my printer/photoshop while using the same tools you just wrote about. I decided to go full Rothko on a perfectly good photo of a small boat floating in a nearby lake - one of those days when the lake reflected the sky and clouds so perfectly that it looks like the little boat is floating in infinity. But noooo. I decided I had to add several inches to the bottom of the image, so the water falls away in a smooth blue gradation down to dark. I wanted a blue you could fall into. I first tried “match” the water colors at the bottom of the image with the new gradation tool. Not good. Legacy gradation next. Better, but not quite. Adjustment tools. No. Several different Firefly editions to extend the image, delivered, not quite right, to hilarious ai interpretations of what might be hiding at the bottom of a body of water. The closest possibilities look pretty good on my screen - but in print they all have a subtle layer of gray going across the print around the middle of the gradation. I think it’s ai or content aware adaptation of grayish cloud-mist edges reconstituted in a 2” band of gray blue instead of simply fading out. It’s turned into the battle of the gray band. There’s nothing wrong with the original picture. But it’s me against photoshop now, and I don’t want to lose a battle with my tools! I would have at it again today, but I have a Thursday deadline for other stuff, so I’ll leave it alone for a while.
Let this be a word of warning to those who see it!!!! ;-)
And now you know why after many, many years of making things for clients I hate why I LOVE my "plain old pictures".