Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:44 AM 3/11/2003 -0800, you wrote: >However, in Photoshop, I'm lost. What I'd ideally like to do is get >Photoshop to do is two things: pull apart the end points in a local region >(masked off by a selection) and then "fill in the blanks" in the resulting >histogram so that I get a smooth tonal gradation and no posterization. > >Is there any way of accomplishing this? > > >M. Martin - Jon Cone has a technique on his site for getting blacker blacks that is one way of dealing with the contrast. I can't find it right now but here is the workflow: - -- go into Channels and click "Load Channel as Selection" (far left symbol at bottom of column) - -- click on Quick Mask Mode (Tools - 3rd from bottom, right) - -- Unclick visibility of Gray Channel - -- Use Image/Adjust/Curves to eliminate all of the image except the shadow detail - -- Image/Adjust/Invert - -- click on "Edit in Standard Mode" (Tools, 3rd from bottom, left) to turn Quick Mask back into selection - -- Now with shadows active, use levels to move the black point in (it doesn't take much to make a big difference) Deselect. You can also fix blown highlights by doing the reverse and selecting the highlights and adding a little Guassian Blur. This is all much easier than it sounds. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com photos available from: http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.mira.com http://www.agpix.com http://www.newscom.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html