Forum: Photography


Subject: Come ON guys--here's the rest of my yucky day

picnic opened this issue on Jul 19, 2001 ยท 17 posts


Alpha posted Fri, 20 July 2001 at 4:53 PM

Lets see... I thought that there were three distinct areas in this that could be readily isolated and worked on. So before I started doing any correction, I created three seperate paths. One for the sky, one for the foreground grass area, and one for the shed. Once these were set I created two duplicate layers (I always leave the background layer in tact). On the first layer I made a selection of the foreground area and adjusted the levels (the white and black points were way off). Then on the top layer I created a layer mask set to reveal all and filled the selection with black so that only the foreground was erased. I could now see the foreground grass adjusted the way I wanted, and the rest of the image was the same. Next I did the same with the sky... sort of :) The grain in the sky bothered me, so I gave it a gaussian blur and that was better. But when I got done I decided it was to flat and just made some clouds in Photoshop. Normally I would find a cloud photo, but for the purpose of showing how this worked I took the cheap route. *S* OK... After I got this far, I selected the shed and adjusted its levels, then switched to the mask layer and revealed the underlying shed. I am sure with some real time and energy this could be made into a really nice image, but I only spent about 20 minutes or so... So that you would get the idea. I hope this all makes sense and that you like it :)