Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Almost all these tips will help me to start becoming a bit better with the areas of PS that I have neglected. Now that I have digital cameras, I need more than the level of skill I acquired for PS 2.5 though that level has been good while film was king ;-) thanks On 19/11/2006, at 11:40, Tina Manley wrote: > At 06:56 PM 11/18/2006, you wrote: >> I know where I'd start in the darkroom: I'd play with burning and a >> higher contrast filter pack, but how would you approach this image in >> Photoshop? How do I clean up the distant mountains without affecting >> the foreground? >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/ >> album119/2004NepalLge9.jpg.html >> >> cheers >> >> Alastair > > > Alastair - Use a Layers adjustment curve. Go to Layers on the > palette menus. Choose the third icon on the bottom which will give > you Adustment Curves. Fix the curve for the lightest values you > want. Don't worry about burning out the rest. Then set your Brush > tool with the foreground color of black. Paint back in everything > that you wanted to be the previous values - fixing the burned out > highlights. Flatten the layers and evaluate your photo. You can > do this as many times as you want, using the Black to paint back > the former values and the White to restore your new values. It's > much, much better than using Shadow/Highlight. > > Hope this helps. > > Tina