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Photo editing tutorial please
Ran across THIS tutorial today and thought I would give it a try on a photo of my son that
I was told need some work. Now I have made a pact with myself never to do in PS that could
be done in a darkroom, but according to this tutorial, thats where this technique came
from. what do you think of the result?
RE:
Your edited version is certainly superior. I'm not such a believer in this technique in
general, though. Here's why:
While it's called contrast masking, there is no masking involved. This isn't just a
problem in terminology. What you want is to selectively change the tone of part of the
image but not other parts. So how is this selection being made? By making a grayscale
image and setting blending to Overlay. The three blending modes Overlay, Hard Light, and
Soft Light regard pure gray as neutral -- so things that are pure gray are not blended
with the underlying layer. But your grayscale image, especially when you choose a lousy
technique to create it (the desaturation function -- see my B+W tutorial for why I call it
lousy), does not choose what's pure gray and what's dark or light gray based on the areas
you want to change. So you may end up making changes to areas you don't want and not
making changes to areas you do want.
If I were you I'd do this by making a mask either by choosing one of the RGB channels or
with the channel mixer, using curves to drive it to a very high contrast image, then using
it as a layer mask to block out or allow the modification to show through. Refer to my
layer mask tutorial and my article about making selections to see some techniques.
Photo-Brush is a cool new image editor
Photo-Brush is a cool new image editor, natural and artistic media painting program,
picture retouching tool, photo enhancer and Image Browser for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP. It
has many rich tools and effects for photo adjusting and photo retouching found in much
more expensive professional tools. And there are also some effects and tools you can
hardly find elsewhere. It is also one of very few featured image editors supporting full
range of EXIF information from Digital Camera images. With Photo-Brush you can easily
correct all unwanted problems of your digital images, you can create a new painting or web
graphics.
Photodex ProShow: image editing
This months' DP has an evaluation copy of ProShow Gold which I've tried and was impressed
with the results. Just wondered if anybody has used it and whether I should go ahead and
purchase the full version.It's only about 40 squids but being Scottish, you've got to be
canny about shelling out hard cash
re:
I use Ulead DVD & CD Picture Show 4, and apart from having a silly long name, it's
very good. Easy enough for an idiot to use (I use it!) yet it allows me to do everything I
want, with a little tweaking.
The included templates all look a little bit daft and unprofessional, but they supply
extra templates for download and if you use your own images for menu backgrounds, it
doesn't really matter anyway.
I briefly played with ProShow Gold but it all seemed a little complex (probably more
powerful though, I must say) so I gave up and stuck with what I was already using.
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