I have a photo with people in foreground and sunset in background. The
exposure of sunset is good, the people are too dark (see sample photo #0)
.
I want to select the people and brighten them.
After selecting the people (using magic wand multiple times), I found it
necessary to feather 1 pixel (#4), otherwise, after brightening the
people,
the edges would be too abrupt. But even this is not ideal; the resulting
photo still has some white or black edge at the people/sky boundary.
Feathering more won't solve the problem; on the contrary, it creates more
obvious edges (#5, #6)
The best solution I found is to feather by 1 pixel and fix each of the
problem areas by hand (#7 last photo). But this takes a lot of time. Is
there a solution that involve less manual labor?
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/5490046_o37yZ
Using photoshop CS2.
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