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Skip to comments.Lessons from the Fall of RomneyCare
Posted on 04/01/2012 4:11:50 PM PDT by God'sgrrl
When then-Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney signed into law the nations most far-reaching state health care reform proposal, it was widely expected to be a centerpiece of his presidential campaign. In fact Governor Romney bragged that he would "steal" the traditionally Democratic issue of health care. "Issues which have long been the province of the Democratic Party to claim as their own will increasingly move to the Republican side of the aisle," he told Bloomberg News Service shortly after signing the bill. He told other reporters that the biggest difference between his health care plan and Hillary Clintons was "mine got passed and hers didnt." more...
So what else is new? Other than GOP once again backed a loser candidate. In some perverse way, I'm going to relish Romney go to the same historical trash heap as Dole and McCain.
If he looses we will see bumper stickers not with GWB but with Sarah's Face sayin' Miss Me Yet?
What a whore he is.
He will say ANYTHING to better his chances. He has no allegiance to a political agenda in any way shape or form except the agenda of self promotion.
The GOP not only gives us McCain and expected us to be loyal to the party but they turn around and increase the ante with Romney and expect us to be fooled again!
In 1854, we had the abolitionists "Free-soil" party [a party that kicked Whig butt!] that merged with the then-new Republican party to intensify its "social-issues" base...(In 1856, the Republican party said it would tackle the "twin relics of barbarism" -- slavery & polygamy...and it did for the next 40+ years!)
Now we have it all in reverse!
We have a descendent of polygamists [great-grandparents & at one point in the family tree, BOTH great-great grandparents were not only polygamists, but brothers...both Lds "apostles" at that]...
...rising to the top of a party...
...that's rapidly diluting its social-issues base...
...chasing it away as fast it can go...
Mark my words...the GoP right now is 29% of registered voters...
...Once it nominates Romney...
...that'll likely to drop to around 25% [me included...and I encourage others to go]...
...then after Romney loses, don't be surprised to see that % drop to under 20% of the registered-voter pie by 2013!
The Republicans are headed for extinction -- like the Whig party!
Geez...so true! Seems that we are heading down the path of what use to be Democrats (now still called Republicans)..
Romney better hope the SCOTUS cancels the whole of Obamacare and takes the issue off the table.
I hope you also relish the destruction of this nation that one more Obama term will guarantee. It is game, set, and match for the USA.
I suppose that Romney decided that he could do something far more efficiently and in a far more cost-effective way than the DemocRATS. He did, you can bet that what the DemocRATS would have imposed something far worse. But it's something that should never have been done in the first place.
Awesome, I need to steal it!
for later.
RomneyCare is not off the table; it's still law in the Bay State. Planned Parenthood still has a permanent position on its oversight committee because Romney wouldn't veto that portion of it.
RomneyCare is still doing $50 taxpayer-funded abortions in MA...blood is still on his hands.
smiles and rainbows
smiles and rainbows
>>smiles and rainbows
Zane Grey had some thoughts on that Jackwagon full of manure.
Believe me, I don't argue with your points in the least; I agree with you. But if the SCOTUS nullifies Obamacare, I don't see how Obama gains from arguing the similarities of his defunct healthcare plan with NittWitt's plan in Massachusetts, in the general.
Tell that to the GOP E! They picked 'their' LIBERAL POS.
Although it has received less media attention than other aspects of the bill, one of the most significant features of the legislation is the creation of the Massachusetts Health Care Connector to combine the current small-group and individual markets under a single unified set of regulations. Supporters such as Robert E. Moffit and Nina Owcharenko of the Heritage Foundation consider the Connector to be the single most important change made by the legislation, calling it "the cornerstone of the new plan" and "a major innovation and a model for other states."
So the "brain trust" at the "conservative" Heritage Foundation, the one Rush always mentions, thought Romneycare was the solution. Now we know better.
The danger is bad ideas. Romney's going to be the nominee. All the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the world isn't going to change that. As conservatives we have a grand opportunity, but time is fleeting. Romney's desperate to solidify the nomination. Now's the time to put our people in tight and close to him. No POTUS runs the country. It is those advisers and staff that do so.
Our focus should and must be controlling the agenda of ideas out there. There are a few key areas that need attention and control - rebinding the Commerce Clause (Lochner, Wickard v. Filburn, etc.); reeling in the regulatory agencies and restoring Congressional oversight; and insuring state's rights are enforced per the US Constitution.
Federal overreach is the issue across the board. The solution is wringing concessions out of Romney right now while he's most amenable to them and the most desperate. Judicial appointments are critical. Get those concessions now in exchange for our support. With a strong Congress and Romney's desperate need to shed Obamacare's shadow he's stepped right into our playground - it's a state issue. That's an opportunity and a grand one.
He's placed himself in a corner. If Obamacare is a state's rights issue, what else is too? Santorum and Gingrich are out. Palin absolutely will not run. There will not be a brokered convention. We need to start moving this country back to its Founding roots. Doing that now with Romney makes the most sense. Flailing at him until he secures the nomination is a losing proposition for those things we care most about.
You must plow the fields with the oxen God gave you. Anbody but Obama should be the objective once the nominee is selected. The reality is that it is the GOP's race to lose. Obama has a record to run on now. No more hope and change.
Well, that was the FIRST mistake...
Depended on the state in terms of open and closed primaries. We started with nine candidates. The primary process may be a tortured one, but it does winnow out those who can't raise money, develop a good grassroots ground game, and manage their resources.
"I am" because I'm addressing the REAL problem. You aren't.
You are too naive - just the way the GOP E likes them. Your POS candidate is a LIBERAL. I don't vote for liberals. I vote for pro-Americans, not scum. Case closed.
Take your rant to your master.
LOL. Welcome to Obamaville.
YOU don't tell me what to do! Got it? God is good and HE hates EVIL and so do I. Evil plays in the hands of those who try to manipulate others with their "MUST". Drop it!
Embrace your PRO HOMO, PRO ABORTION, anti traditional marriage, high unemployment Gov, anti-gun appointment of liberal judges Big Gov't socialistic healthcare candidate ALL YOU WANT. Mitt's an imposter - he belongs to the 'rat party and satan pawns paved the way that - one way or another - satan will sit in our WH - to bring the ultimate destruction on America. But NOT on my vote.
I WILL never taint myself with voting for EVIL by putting satan's pawn in the WP. It's just not happening. YOU NEED to get it over by the way "I" choose to vote - not everyone is in the gutter. God's OWN cannot be manipulated - so don't try it. For God will NOT be mocked, what you sow, you reap, more than you sow, later than you sow. And that's for ALL the manipulation by the GOP over the years - and MITT - their 'later' will soon be upon them. Hint: In the end, they don't win - only for a short time and then comes destruction - God's wrath.
Now I believe I made myself very clear - even for the clueless and naive - so I trust you will 'get it'.
Not for the POS who has the media on it's side and who LIES as easily as he breathes.
but it does winnow out those who cant raise money
VS. those who have been GIVEN money by big business to be their whore.
develop a good grassroots ground game
The POS 'grassroots' have been given deals and bought off!! Not rocket science for those with a brain cell.
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The Westing Game Lies and Deceit Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"I have twenty people begging for this apartment," Barney Northrup said, lying through his buckteeth. "Take it or leave it." (1.30)
Well, Barney is actually lying on several levels. He tells each tenant that twenty other folks are "begging" for whatever apartment he's showing, but we know that's impossible – only six letters were sent out advertising the place. He has the same spiel for each tenant and must be doing something right, because by the time his work is done, he's rented the building exactly as he wanted to. As we also know at this point, though, Barney's lying by just virtue of pretending to be someone named Barney.
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(Now, there's a likely suspect, Otis Amber thought. Hoo, the inventor; Hoo, the angry man, the madman.) […]
(Can't trust that dressmaker, Mr. Hoo thought. How come she's grinning at a time like this?) (16.24, 16.22)
While these lines do a great job of showing off the book's narrative structure (head over to our section "Narrator Point of View" to find out more about that, and then come back here), they also show how little each of the characters know each other. Everyone looks down on Otis as the kind of slow, elderly delivery boy, but of course he's in disguise. Isn't everyone? In the few asides we get from him we see glimpses of a much smarter person who here is coming up with a pretty good idea of a suspect with a strong motive. Then, the narrator undercuts that by telling us who that suspect suspects. Of course, Mr. Hoo is basing his assumption of Flora's possible guilt based on her inappropriate (smiling) behavior. Of the two, Otis probably has a stronger case. (Even though they're both wrong.)
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He hated himself for spying. He hated Sam Westing and his dirty money and his dirty game. Theo felt as dirty as the derelicts he spied on. Dirtier. (21.19)
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the guy was cruel and wanted to call the cops on us he didnt want to change the phone nor give us the money back the receipt said 7 days of return and my son brought it back on march 2, 2012.
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In august the loan was taken over by HSBC (parent co of Beneficial.)Of course in september when I called noone knew what I was talking about and had a reason why it could not happen. I'm still not quite sure why. In september they also paid my flood insurance 5 days late. Just so you know there is no grace period for flood ins. I just had no coverage for 5 days in the peak of hurricane season. I live on the coast in bad flood zone. HSBC had no explanation or apology nor did they offer any fix. I was just SOL if my house flooded.
In Feb 09 I received an escrow analysis from HSBC saying my payment was going to raise again because the account had to go into the negative a few months after they paid my insurance. I was already paying $3400 a year in escrow when my insurance and taxes only added up to $2400. When I started investigating and going through all my back statements I realized that when the account transferred from Beneficial to HSBC $580 seemed to disappear from my escrow balance. When I called HSBC they had no idea said it was Beneficial's issue. Beneficial said sent that payment in June for my taxes(which are due in May and only $206 biannually) and that was where the money went. But HSBC statement showed HSBC making 2 payments in Sept and Oct (late again.) i called the county and they never received $580 from Beneficial. Then Beneficial takes 2 weeks to do research inquiry to tell me the check was never cashed. They would send it to HSBC. Who still has not received the money. Now Beneficial Research dept is doing another inquiry that has lasted over a month. Every one I have talked to agrees I am due the money but cant tell me why I am not getting it. The research dept does not speak to the public so I have to go through a cost service rep who cant do anything except pass messages back and forth.
I have requested that my escrow account be cancelled. I figure if I have to inspect every statement and babysit I might as well do it my. i should be able to pay on time and save myself the >$1200 per year they want as cushion on the escrow. Today I was told that my request was denied because the escrow was in the original terms of the loan. Of course as I said at the beginning only the taxes were in the original escrow. So i sent an appeal letter today. I also said that I was not going to make escrow payments untill I received the check from Beneficial and someone from the research department called me. i also mentioned that I was calling a lawyer if it went to my credit because they are refusing to apply the principle and interest payment that I made this month untill the escrow is paid. I have been busting my butt trying to get my credit better over the past year and I finally got my score over 700. I cant even refinance because my property value has dropped so much. They are sending me some info for goverment bailout assistance. Which I don't need. I just need a fair payment.
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I'm looking at tripods, trying to decide if I want to replace my 30ish year old Slik. My motivation is that I'm 6'4" (76"), and I have yet to see a tripod that offers height much over 5' (60"). Even with a head and camera mounted, that leaves me close to a foot short. Am I doomed to forever stoop and squint to get my bespectacled eyes in the right place to take a photo or is there someone who makes a 70" tall tripod?-dave
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#1. "RE: Tripod for a tall guy" | In response to Reply # 0
The Bogen 3046 (Manfrotto 028 TriMan) and Bogen 3036 (Manfrotto 075 TriSpecial) extend to 70.5 and 73.2 inches respectively, without raising the geared center column. Accordingly they are more heavy, 9.1 and 9.9 lbs respectively.
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Ouch...I used one of those when I was in college, shooting video with a 20lb behemoth of a JVC camera. After lugging it and Bertha across campus a few dozen times I can honestly say that I think I'm looking for something a little lighter...Thanks-dave
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#2. "RE: Tripod for a tall guy" | In response to Reply # 0
I'm 6'4" also and use a Tiltall which extends to at least eye-level for me. It's a solid tripod (I've used it with a 600mm plus 2X converter) and doesn't cost an arm and leg. Just a little over $100.00USD.
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#3. "RE: Tripod for a tall guy" | In response to Reply # 2
Take a look at the Bogen 3021 pro. Mine has the 3030 pan tilt head. I am 6'2" and with the legs fully extended and center column not raised, the camera is at eye level.Mike
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I also have the Bogen 3021 with a 3030 head on it. I have found that with my F100 w/ MB-15 on the top of the tripod, with the center column fully extended, my 6'5" height is not enough to allow me to look through the viewfinder! (I hate coming up short!) And the tripod is very solid even when fully extended like that!
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The 3021 looks more my style, but it's a little on the short side. Any thoughts on the pro vs the regular one? The only difference seems to be the horizontal column mount option. I use a tripod to shoot things like mountians, cars, birds at the feeder and occasionally my kid sister. I don't do copy work or wierd macro work, so I'm not sure it has much value to me.53.2" for the tripod, add another 4" for my camera makes 57.2". That still leaves me about a foot short. Hmmm...I can stand 4 or 5" of extension of the center column...it's not that bad. A nice tall pro head adds 5" or so. 67.2" isn't _that_ bad I suppose. My eye level is right about 71".I guess what I'm looking for is a decent tripod that extends to 60+" and doesn't suck. Weight under 8lbs would be nice. Maybe I should comission one Hakuba's Mark 7 looks pretty tempting, but I cant' find it at the usual places, so I have no idea where to get it or how much it costs.The guys over at Photo.net seem to like the Gitzo 340 and 320, but the price is a littl erich for my blood.I've also been groking the Proball 468QR (3435QR) recently. I know it's 2x the cost of the tripods IThoughts?-dave
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Does the Tiltall support 3rd party heads? I can't seem to find a picture that details that part of the assembly. I'd like to put a ball head on whatever tripod I end up with. The Tiltall seems to fit the bill (at 60" without the center post extended), but I'm missing this one crucial piece of info.Thanks-dave
#10. "RE: Tripod for a tall guy" | In response to Reply # 9
My Tiltall (1988 version) doesn't support a third party head but newer models might. I'd check with the distributor about this. Unfortunately I'm not sure who is distributing the Tilrall line now.
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#7. "RE: Tripod for a tall guy" | In response to Reply # 0
Dave, the Gitzo G1509 with extended center geared column has a maximum height of 284cm, which is about 11'2". Add another 10cm (4") for the head, and the same for the camera, and the viewfinder will be about 12' above ground.Even you with your 6'4" will need a stepladder to look through the viewfinder
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#8. "RE: Tripod for a tall guy" | In response to Reply # 7
If I had more than a few hundred dollars for a tripod, you'd better believe I'd buy a Gitzo. In college I used a Gitzo microphone fishpole for video shoots and it was a dream. It just worked better somehow. Kinda like the difference between a BMW M3 and my Honda Civic. Both work, but one's just...well...you know.Unfortunately, I'm not to the point where I'm ready to buy one of their tripods, either financially or personally. Maybe after I've quit my day job to sell photos....B&H says it's 99" tall without the center column (model G1504). With a ball head and a camera mounted, I might be able to reach the shutter standing, but I certianly wouldn't be able to see the finder I'll settle for something that ends up around 6' (72"). Thanks-dave
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#11. "RE: Tripod for a tall guy" | In response to Reply # 8
I would suggest visiting a camera store with your camera and trying out a Tiltall using it as is; you may find it's a little more stable as you are lining up your shot than a ball head. I'm 6'4" and the two "handles" work smoothly and quickly. Good shooting.
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Complaint Review: REI Property Management - REALESTATE INVESTORE
REI Property Management - REALESTATE INVESTOREwww.reipropertymanagement.com Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota U.S.A.
REI Property Management - REALESTATE INVESTORE Unprofessional and Unethical practices Minneapolis / St. Paul Minnesota
*Consumer Comment: GREAT JOB REI PROPERTY MANAGEMENT!
*Consumer Comment: Owner is the same as the employees
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*General Comment: I completly agree
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Invalid compalint
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Near the end of our tenancy, the agent acted unprofessionally when it came to showing the property to possible new tenants. He would show up unannounced on several separate occasions and claim that he had call when there was no call placed prior. He became hostile when confronted, by phone, with the problem and made threats to keep the security deposit based on the phone call alone.
Be wary of this management company. They have not treated us or the lease with the respect and common decency that a tenant deserves.
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SUBMITTED: Saturday, April 20, 2013POSTED: Saturday, April 20, 2013
I worked with Real Estate Agent Sandra Jimenez from REI, as well as REI Property Managment President, Steve Rajavuori --- who had referred me to Sandra. At first I had every intention of working with REI as my Property Management Co. for the house that I own, but I decided to then sell my place & work with them as my Real Estate Agents. I originally heard about REI from some of the great reviews from Friends...Example: one friend of my dads owns 3 Houses but lives in Japan (!).. shes been working with REI for years to manage their properties & find renters for her-&-her-hubby as well. She says they do a great job at doing EVERYTHING for her... Definitely full service! I believe they also have some sort of flat fee every month of $100 or something like that.. very reasonable to manage & take care of your property!
Re: REI's Real Estate Agent: Sandra Jimenez.. Shes soo great to work with! Even my step-mom (who was a successful realtor with Caldwell Banker & ReMax too told me this in a text): Quote: "You sure did pick the right Realtor she (Sandra Jimenez) is very very good!" Coming from my step-mom or any fellow Realtor..this is an amazing compliment in regards to Sandra Jimenez of REI!
Sandra is not telling me to write this... Im just writing because I think that someone needs to know what a truly great Realtor she is & REI Real Estate as well! Sandra is a great communicator, hard worker, thoughtful, caring, considerate, aware, smart, etc. too.. I now i just want everyone to know how much she had meant to me, my family, & friends as well.. She just has no idea how she has so touched our lives being here for me (& all of us as well) like she has! We love her like she was part of our family... What a dear lady she is!
Practical things she did too was: stand in the cold for hours in my garage (Sandra & her hubby too) while my tenant of whom I had to evict was finally moving her belongings after months of non-payment. She was there for me when i couldn't be there. She also was kind but also very firm with the tenant that I had to evict as well... (Long story). I appreciate how well balanced Sandra is.
After I decided to sell my home vs renting it out-- Sandra's input & smart advice made me able to sell my home super quick. I wound up with multiple offers within a couple hours (!)... and then I had a buyer come in offering cash for my whole place. This wasnt because she advised me to offer my home at a low cost.. it was simply listed at the right price causing these multiple offers.. which made me alot of money in the end. I'm so glad I just listened to her her wise advice to paint, & more... as its true-- it-takes-money-to-make-money sometimes. Also, it's great to have an experienced Real Estate Agent who knows the area well.
THANK-YOU Steve Rajavuori & Sandra Jimenez of REI Property Management & Real Estate for being here for me... everything from helping me deal with my non-paying Tenants... advice on the whole eviction process (which I sadly had to do).. being there in the cold for me during my tenants move out... and then preparing my place to sell.. showing it... then selling it. What a great full service company you have Steve Rajavuori, with great personnel!
Keep up the Great Job Sandra, Steve, & REI Real Estate! :)
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Owner is the same as the employees
AUTHOR: jekinney - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Friday, May 18, 2012POSTED: Friday, May 18, 2012
I am a retired military member who was looking to move back to MN after 20ish years. Found their site, made an inquiry into a property. Terri Leeds responded in the subject line only. I was surprised she didn't send a more professional response with more possible more listings that would accept pets. I replied stating the about, and added I guess it is only money, very respectfully and thank you anyways. I got a reply back, "That's funny because I didn't edit the subject line. I have no idea where it came from. Oh well, I think I was saying the owner will only accept one dog." and that was it.
I started checking for reviews, quite a few out their, and not one positive. The owner Steve seems to spend quite a bit of time replying to them, as you can see here, and seems to attack one's opinion instead of fixing the problem. Training and better leadership and he might have a fine company one day. I am surprised they have stayed open during this economy.
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#3 REBUTTAL Owner of company
Another false report
AUTHOR: Steve Rajavuori - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, September 09, 2010POSTED: Thursday, September 09, 2010
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I completly agree
AUTHOR: Logan 5 - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, July 19, 2010POSTED: Monday, July 19, 2010
When it came time to show the house as we were leaving the agents showing the house were blatantly doing racial profiling. This is a bad company. Stay clear of them.
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Invalid compalint
AUTHOR: Steve Rajavuori - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Monday, August 03, 2009POSTED: Monday, August 03, 2009
I can only conclude that this individual must have intended to name a different company. We have not had any incident like this at any point in our history, and certainly not with any of our properties in Minnetonka.
I invite any potential tenant or owner questioning our record to visit the Better Business Bureau web site, or contact me for further discussion and a list of references.
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Skill Level Intermediate
Now that we have seen how to take some beautifully captured photographs and make them look even better with the help of the Lab Color mode. Let's see how to take a really bad photograph and make it look better. So, the idea is that you can dRAW forth colors where either you have very little color to work with in the first place or seemingly no color at all as in the case of this image right here. God light.tif, so called because we have the streaks of light raining down from the heaven. So, it's a typical God light shot here, with the exception of the fact that barely has any contrast and it doesn't seem to have really anything in the way of color saturation for all intensive and purposes like a grayscale photo.
But there are colors there, now this image is found inside the O2_what_it_can_do folder if you want to open it on up. We are going to take this image and we are going to dRAW forth this image right here and those are natural colors folks, these are not colors that I painted in, I didn't add the Photofiltre or anything like that, these are all colors that are actually extent inside of this image right there, believe it or not. Now, this correction was created in the Lab Color mode and you are going to be able to get much better result in Lab than you are RGB.
For example, here is what I'm able to accomplish in RGB, not bad but not this good either. So, let's go back to the image that hand here. Let's start things off by attempting a correction in RGB and this is an RGB image. I'm going to go ahead and Tab back my palette. You can see the Histogram palette up on screen here. So, we have just got a bunch of mid tones to work with, almost nothing in a way of highlights, nothing in the way of shadows. So, the first thing that we need to do is hit it with the Levels command in order to increase the contrast.
So, I'm going to go ahead and press the Alt or Option key and click the black/white icon and choose Levels and that will bring up the New Layer dialog box, I will call this guy Contrast and I will click OK and that brings up the Levels dialog box. Now, possibly the easiest thing to do here, just to get a sense of what kinds of shadows and highlights we have available to it. The easiest thing to do is to click on the Auto button, which invokes the Auto Levels function here inside the Levels dialog box. That goes ahead and corrects the image on a channel by channel basis.
So, notice that we don't have any values assigned here inside the RGB composite view. So, I have to press Ctrl+1 or Cmd+1 on the Mac in order to switch to the Red channel for example and then I can see that the black point and the white point had been altered. The Gamma value is not altered at all by Auto Levels and there is the Green value. So, you can see each one of the channels is altered independently, thanks to Auto Levels. The problem with working that route, it sometimes can be actually quite successful, but the problem, the downside, the potential downside is that you are going to introduce colors that are not really native to the photograph.
What if you would prefer to adjust all of the channels in kind? Why, then you would click on the Options button right here and instead of enhancing Per Channel Contrast, you would enhance the Monochromatic Contrast. So, go ahead and click on that item and now we will see this invokes the Auto contrast function as you can see there in parentheses inside of that hint. I will go ahead and click OK and what that does is it applies the exact same modifications inside each one of the channels. So, here I'm looking at the Green channel, 59, 217.
If I go back to the Red channel, 59, 217. Now, I don't want it to be quite that type. Notice that the black point is just sort of abutted right against that histogram, against the far edge of the histogram there. It's going into it, just ever so slightly and that means we are going to get a lot of contrast, but it also means that we have that potential for increasing the amount of noise in the image or for quite that type to the edge of the shadows there. Because we are going to be bringing out a ton of noise in this image no matter what we do, I suggest that we ease up on this value.
So, I'm going to take it down to 55 and then I'm going to Tab over to the white point value and I'm going to take it up to 230 and then I'm going to Shift+Tab back to the Gamma value, Shift+Up arrow to take it to 1.1. So, 55, 1.1 and 230 and I'm going to do the exact same thing for the Green channel, 55, I'm going to just enter those values, 1.1 and 230 and then for the blue channel, we are going to be operating pretty much the same, 55, 1.1 again. But rather than going with 230 which would retain the natural colors that were captured by the camera, I'm going to introduce the little bit of additional blue by taking this value down to 220.
So, we are emphasizing the blues by reducing the white point value. In other words we are making more of the colors blue inside the image. All right, then I'm going to click OK to accept that modification. So things look better, this is before, this is after still pretty nebulous, but we do have a little bit of contrast going on and we are spreading out the histogram as you can see here inside the histogram palette. It has got lot of gaps in it, so it is not a good histogram but it's a better looking image than it was before. Now let's bring out the color saturation by Alt or Option clicking on the black/white icon, choosing Hue/Saturation.
Go ahead and call this guy up sat, click OK. You can take the Saturation value as high as a 100 if you are crazy and you want to just completely damage the image beyond all possible recognition there. We do want to take it really ultrahigh, partially because we want to bring out those colors partially to see how raising the color saturation to this extent inside RGB doesn't work all that well but it really works pretty darn well inside of Lab. Anyway, so we are going to take it up to 85, +85 which is really super high, you would pretty much never do that in real life.
But we are going to the Mac for this image, click OK in order to accept that modification and go ahead and zoom in on the image if you care to and you will see that we have got all kinds of problems going on now. We are bringing out a lot of noise, we have a ton of banding going on now. We can get rid of some of that, we can limit that to an extent by focusing the Saturation value that we just applied on just the saturation. The weird thing about the Saturation function inside the Hue/Saturation command is that it effects luminance Levels and if you wanted to just effect color saturation, then you need to apply it to the Saturation values or you need to actually choose Saturation from a Blend Mode pop up menu and I am going to do that and notice how things calm down quite a bit.
When we apply that function now, we still have a lot of noise, if you have to zoom in some more, you can see all kinds of color noise going on. But we don't have the degree of luminance noise that we had just a moment ago. So, this is the color corrected version of the photograph, this is the original one, we just opened a moment ago. This is the corrected version here inside of the RGB mode. It's better, I won't go so far as to say it's best, you can see may I look over here in the upper right corner of the image, you can see that we have quite a bit of luminance noise going on over here and we are not going to get quite that much, we are going to get some in Lab Color mode, but not as much as we get here in RGB.
But there is one more thing we need to do and that is we need to sharpen this image, it's just too cloudy. We need to have more sharpness associated, more details associated with this God light. So, we are going to apply some sharpness in the next exercise.