Nice Shel. This'll work better tho: http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/marnie.jpg ;-)
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 9:56 AM > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: PESO: Invitation to Hike > > > Yes, you want to mask the bright area. It's quite simple. Not > knowing all > the commands and features in elements, I may be using the wrong terms and > definitions, but I know you're clever enuf to figure it out. > > 1: Create a duplicate background layer; > > 2: Use the magic wand (which seems to work well in this case, > . other selection techniques may be a better choice in other > . situations) on the duplicate layer and set the tolerance to > about 25; > > 3: Set the wand to non contiguous; > > 4: Click on an area that's representative of the washed out sky; > > 5: Very lightly feather the selection (1 pixel should do it); > > 6: Choose a blue to replace the washed out area; > > 7: Using a brush of appropriate size set to 100% opacity > . and to darken, paint over the selected area ; > > 8: Using the opacity slider in the layers palette, adjust the sky > . to whatever density you like (with the blue I used 35% opacity > . seemed fine); > > 9: Deselect the selected area. > > Here's the pic with the adjustment: > http:home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/marnie.jpg > > Nice pic, BTW ;-)) > > > Shel > > > > [Original Message] > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Yes, but that would affect the whole photo. I think in this kind of > situation > > I would need to mask an area, a small area, then do > shadow/highlight. And > > right now my skills are not such that I can mask a small area yet. >
