Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug, I can't help you, I have no idea about layers etc..., for me the three pitures are very nice, maybe the last version could be the better... Cheers Lluis El 15/12/2009, a las 4:50, Doug Herr escribi?: > With the cold rainy/snowy weather we've had lately I've had time to > go back to older photos to see what I could make of them. I've > learned a bit about photoshop in the last few years thanks to many > on these lists so I'm trying to improve on photos that didn't quite > do it for me the first time around. This is probably old hat to > many of you but bear with me, I'm learning this stuff. > > The photo I've been working on this last week is a Western Bluebird, > photographed locally in March 2007. The bird was in the deep shade > of an oak forest, the only light on the bird was sunlight filtered > through the forest canopy. Very green. Until this week I haven't > been satisfied with the color balance; with a good background color > that looks like oak forest, the bird's colors are way off. With the > color balance adjusted for the bird, the background looks like crap: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/temp/webl06bg.jpg > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/temp/webl06fg.jpg > > Previously I tried to find a happy medium between these two, but the > medium I landed on was anything but happy. For the last week or so > I've been working on another approach: I split the photo into > foreground and background layers, applied separate color correction > to suit each layer, then combined them, erasing the background areas > from the foreground layer. Here's the result: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/turdidae/webl06.jpg > > Comments and suggested alternate approaches to this problem are > welcome (but keep in mind the most advanced software I have is PS6). > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information