"peter" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:8s3hk.272$DS3.264@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >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.
Same old trick I have posted here several times before.
1. Make a dupe layer of the original
2. Adjust the brightness of the 2 love birds to your liking.
3. Click on the [o] (Quick Mask) then start Masking and it should work.
If you are good with the above techniques then it shouldn't take more
than
some seconds to no more than 1-2 mins the most. You may be able to use
HDR
too, but I am not HDR experted (only tested once long ago to learn the
technique) to remember all small detail to pass to you. Or I am pretty
good
with Masking to care much about other dirty trick's.
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