Thanks, Chris! Glad you liked it. I will pass on the zipped .psd to you later today.
Here's what I thought: Chris's image is taken on a hazy, hot day. I can see a faint mirage at the horizont. The colours have a washed-out look, and there's very little sense of depth in the landscape, even though the composition encourage it. I want to put more juice in the colours, and remove as much of the haze as I can. I also want to put some blueness into the sky, since Chris specifically asked for it. Would never have thought of that myself. This will be interesting. Here's what I did: 1. Rotated the image 1� clockwise to straighten the horizon, and cropped away the corners. 2. Marked a rectangle containing all the sky and down to the horiszont, and feathered 200 pixels. 3. Copied the selection into a new layer (HazeLayer). 4. Created a Levels Adjustment Layer, grouped it with HazeLayer, and adjusted Gamma to 0.30. This removed most of the haze, but made the sky look like a smog blanket. 5. Marked a rectangle from the background layer as in step 2, and feathered 10 pixels. 6. Copied the selection into a new layer (SkyLayer), on top of all other layers. Keep the selection active. 7. Performed a Smart Blur on the SkyLayer. Not really sure if it's necessary, but it makes the sky look smoother. 8. Opened another image with a nice sky colour, and used the eyedropper tool to select a suitable blue. 9. Back to Chris' image, create another layer with a filling gradient from foreground colour to transparent. Since the selection from step 6 was still active, the gradient goes from the top of the image down to the horizont. 10. Adjust opacity of the Gradient layer to taste. My setting was 43%, but that will vary with the hue selected with the eyedropper. 11. Finally, create a Hue/Saturation layer on top of everything, and boost saturation as desired. My settings were: Hue: +4 Saturation: +39 Lightness: 0 It took me a while to figure out how to approach the problems. Learned a lot from this experience. Thanks again, Jostein PS. Using a pola-filter is easier...:-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jostein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 2:05 PM Subject: RE:Emailing:imgp2908 > Hi Jostein,That is beautiful.The image is richer and more defined.Skys in > Australia vary from place to place from a pale blue to an almost azure > blue.but where the picture was taken it was pale blue due to the haze.I must > say I am deeply impressed.I have cable and PS7. > Regards Chris K > > >
