Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration Tutorials
Basics / Adjusting Part of Your Image pt. 2
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Alright, let us go ahead and finish what we were going to do on this photograph. We are going to do something here now, it is really fun, kind of creative and it is going to completely change the dramatic impact of this shot. And indeed we have accomplished what we set out to do and we've made this into a really attractive photograph and we brightened the foliage under here and separated some of the color and gave it a bit more detail, made it bit more interesting to look at, did not do too much to Half dome. But now what we are going to do is change the sky, okay? So following along on this, it's got a few steps to it, but it is a lot of fun. And I think you will like the result. Now first thing we are going to do is combine our layers, and then we are going to immediately duplicate the resulting flattened layer and then we are going to go to select - color range, and we are kind of lucky on this shot in that we have a very contiguous white sky which makes it very easy to do this process. And once we have that selection selected, here is what we are going to do now. Once we get through with this process, what is going to happen is that inevitably when you do this you are going to have a white border around this area right here, okay? So we are going to take a step right out to eliminate that white border. I know what is going to be there because we have done this before and this is what always happens. So here is how to get rid of the artifacting or the image residual within there, go to select - modify - expand, and what this does is it expands the coverage of the selection by the number of pixels that you enter into the box there. In this particular shot we had it set at three, I am going to set it at six, because it is a high-res shot and we are going to choose OK and you see it jumped there a little bit and when that happens, we will go back and we can trace this back out. We can do all kinds of adjustments to this to really make it a fine art print, but we are not going to do that now, because I just want to show you the basics, so I will kind of go though this to show what we are doing. Alright so we expand the selection to get rid of the white border, the white artifacting, we hit OK and that removes the background, Voilˆ! Then we come up here and what are we going to put it in its place? We are going to borrow portions of another photograph; we are going to go to the lasso. God made a serious mistake when he invented Photoshop and handed it to me; if you cannot have fun with this stuff, then what is the point? That's why he made a serious mistake because this is part of the reason I am divorced; you think I'm kidding. Alright, we have made a selection and then we are going to doctor the selection up to give it a little bit more drama to bring up the detail in the clouds. Don't worry we are going to get rid of that, here we have our saturate status there, let's do a little bit of an S curve on here and see what we get. See all the detail that came out when you darkened and contrasted that out, one more little tweak, pull out one more little eyelash, see what we get. Alright, watch this. Perfect, absolutely perfect. Let me set this down here and what we are going to do, is now we are going to take the selection and we are going to drag it. So what you do, you push down shift and then left-click the mouse and drag it over and then release it. And that drags that selection over to this image. Now it looks stupid, doesn't it? Because it is not stacked correctly in the layers palette. We have it stacked top, middle, and bottom, top, middle and bottom. So what we are going to do is take this layer and move it, and put it behind the background copy and look at that. Right now, what we are going to do next is we are going to take this background copy, and we are going to darken it, then we are going to spot reduce it, and really, actually this does not look totally cool, I mean there is artifacting up here from the sky that we need to get rid of. I am not going to mess with that right now, because you get the idea, I have done pretty much, line it up, center everything, I am going to do on it. I mean after you tweak it and mess with the color and the balance a little bit. See how that photograph changes from a nice bucolic fall afternoon to a dramatic stormy situation? I like the result on that. And that is just one of the cool things to do in Photoshop.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration |
| Author: | Phil Hawkins |
| SKU: | 33473 |
| ISBN: | 1932072705 |
| Release Date: | 2004-01-27 |
| Duration: | 4.5 hrs / 77 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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