"peter" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>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.
you can pay a tiny fee and these people www clippingprovider com will do
it
for you
> fast too
Ok now I didn't have CS2
went from CS to CS3
does it have the refine edge feature?
there are a million tutorials on selections and DE-FRINGE (I think) is
what
you are asking about
you might try
shadow/ highlight on a dupe layer or copy
OR
open in RAW and move the slider that says "fill light"
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