-----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.
