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Okay, I want to show you a really neat process for adjusting part of your image, and that is the history brush. This thing kind of intimidated me when they first came out with it, but I have learned it and it is a really, really neat tool. So pay attention, you don't want to miss something really neat here. Alright now what we are going to do is start with our initial image. Before we get into actually doing that, one thing I need to teach you is when you start making adjustments on these images and you've got high-resolution scans, and fifty-one meg files, this is what I deal with all the time and sometimes with some of these tools you are overwhelming your CPU and its processes and it jams things up, so what we are going to have to do on this is change our resolution to about six hundred and our size to, let's say how about four, four by two. I guess this is an eleven meg file, which is going to be a whole lot easier to deal with. So we are going to bring this back up to fit on the screen and we've got something to work with, bring this out and then we are going to go to the adjustments palette and go to saturation, and we are going to reduce this. Ever seen those images where the background is in black and white and the subject is in color? That is a really neat effect; you have seen that before, I am sure. I am going to teach you how to do that. You replace the history brush right there and then you go back one step to here. You are watching me on the history palette here, okay? Just see me do that, and you go grab your history brush right there and you get it up to size you need it to be, so that we can do this kind of quickly. You just paint, you just start painting, and what that does is remove the color information from the previous state to allow the black and white to shine through. It is kind of like masking, a second cousin to masking, but it is very quick. Now see here where you have got a black part of the image, I went into her hat and the back of her neck, and we have got to do that, we have got a black area in the image and it's okay to do that because the eye cannot see that there is no color there, that is all. Be careful about going into the color areas of the image, because we do not want to take out any color information up here, up from our image, and there we have it, we have got a black and white background and we have got a color subject. Now just for giggles, let us show you what we can do with this. Let's experiment some; let's put all the black and white information out, except the head shot; it looks kind of dumb, doesn't it? But this is by way of experimenting, if this looks good, fine, and if not, then do not use it, go back and start over. Anyway, that is the history brush. Experiment with it, you will love it.
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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