Sorry Jack, I asked the last question badly - I was just wondering whether you had used a coloured filter on the actual lens :-) (I've just been experimenting a bit with red and yellow filters for b&w film shots, and still trying to work out how best to use them)
I'm lucky enough to have full Photoshop at work - (UK educational licensing is quite cheap :-) so I don't know too much about Elements. But it is certainly possible to select just parts of your image, then apply effects such as levels, contrast, sharpness etc to just that selected sub-region. So you could perhaps apply very different treatments to your sky, the dark barn wall, and the foreground. Of course that then looks really weird and artificial along the "joins" between your manipulated regions. So you can first "feather" (soften) the edges of your selection (by say 25 pixels), before you apply any effects as above. Beyond that, people get really nerdy by making several identical copies of the same starting image, applying different effects to each one, stacking them up in "Layers" on top of one another, and then controlling how much of each one shows through onto the one above. That's a textbook in itself. As you might imagine, you can go on almost indefinitely - and I certainly don't have the skill to do all that without going too far and ending up with an artificial looking result. But it's best to start simple and learn what each tool does slowly. This page has an interesting use of the "dodge" tool - which I have never tried before - so I might give that a go sometime :-) http://depts.washington.edu/trio/train/howto/pieces/images/photoshop/elements2.shtml Cheers, jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:26 PM Subject: Re: Wild Oats II > Jim, Thanks for you interest and suggestion. > I'm Elements 4.0. Do I have colored filters? If so, how would they be > applied? > I simply scan (Epson 3170) in PS. I mainly applied levels, as I > remember. In reviewing it, I feel the sky could be somewhat lighter. > Halo is greatly reduced by so doing, of course, but It's difficult to > be certain after looking at it for awhile. > I'm open to any suggestions you may care to offer. Please keep it > "dumb", for my sake. :)) > > Thanks, > > Jack > > --- jim kerslake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Like the contrast and rather abstract lines / composition - > > > > I like the foreground detail of the larger version more - > > but the edges of the barn now have a distracting pale halo effect > > that looks > > a bit "Photoshoppy", so I prefer it without that. > > > > > > I'm guessing you are scanning b&w negs into graphics software? > > > > It's probably possible to avoid that halo but still get the same > > foreground > > effect > > (a few days in a room with a Photoshop manual and plenty of coffee: > > adjustment layers, masks and airbrushes) > > > > but sometimes life is just too short - > > I seldom bother with any of that myself, since the more I fiddle > > about the > > worse it seems to get :-) > > > > Any coloured filter used to increase contrast in the original shot? > > > > cheers, > > jim > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jack Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:51 AM > > Subject: PESO: Wild Oats II > > > > > > > I couldn't resist trying another (and last) upload with a larger > > file. > > > I realize it's contrasty, but as I explained before, it suits my > > taste > > > for this image. I know it won't be to everyone's palate. > > > > > > Last request for comments. Thanks. > > > > > > Jack > > > > > > http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=140 > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > [email protected] > > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------- > > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. > > It has removed 8142 spam emails to date. > > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- ---------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 8230 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
