Hi-Key or not ,

they are fun and very creative. The 1st comes from just adjusting the contrast and brightness. The second goes further and involves an additional layer mirrored to the 1st, with the negative or opposite adjustment. Regardless, it was fun and rather easy for a novice PS user.

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Please accept this not as criticism but simply the possibility that High Key is not the correct terminology. What I see here is ultra high contrast - almost to the point of being line art.

It has always been my understanding that high-key means continuous tone but predominantly high values.

What do you think?

In any case, the work you are doing in that venue is certainly excellent work and very interesting and attractive images.

I was corrected on this one in the past. High key is where most of the image data is in the highlights. If you were to look at the histogram, the peaks would be concentrated on the right - I bet that isn't true with these. I think "high contrast" works to classify these. And oh, BTW, I like them - nice work.

Thanks for the comments, I'll accept hi contrast as oppossed to hi-key. There are those that think hi-key is a lighting term and not associated with post at all. I'll try hi-key sometime soon.

I know the term "high key" is used in the cinematic realm, which is wher the scene is lit so there are almost no shadows. Is that what you mean? I've always thought that in photography, a true high key picture would have little contrast. I found this in a quick google search: http://photography.abo​ut.com …lossary/bldef_h​ighkey.htm. And this for low key photography: http://photography.abo​ut.com …glossary/bldef_​lowkey.htm. I think that fits your images, don't you?

Extract From PSCS2 Help file:
"A low-key image has detail concentrated in the shadows; a high-key image has detail concentrated in the highlights; and an average-key image has detail concentrated in the midtones. An image with full tonal range has a number of pixels in all areas."

Aslo see this web site for stock images catalogued as to High or Low key:
http://www.acclaimimag​es.com