Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com