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Re: brighten foreground without abrupt edge?

by Joe <joe@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jul 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM

Almen <almen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> peter a écrit :
> > 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. 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> Have you tried the shadows/highligth command ?

	Shadow/Hi-lite usually shadow/hi-lite the whole image not to the specific
area.  I believe it has few extra option like more/less to darker/brighter
but still pretty limit comparing to advanced trick.
  
> For example : http://dl.free.fr/pvUV0gxHD/335747122_0(2).jpg
 




 9 Posts in Topic:
brighten foreground without abrupt edge?
"peter" <nos  2008-07-21 17:12:36 
Re: brighten foreground without abrupt edge?
"KatWoman" <  2008-07-21 18:31:29 
Re: brighten foreground without abrupt edge?
Joe <joe@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-07-21 18:54:19 
Re: brighten foreground without abrupt edge?
tacit <tacitr@[EMAIL P  2008-07-21 18:38:35 
Re: brighten foreground without abrupt edge?
Almen <almen@[EMAIL PR  2008-07-22 18:35:57 
Re: brighten foreground without abrupt edge?
Joe <joe@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-07-22 12:56:37 
Re: brighten foreground without abrupt edge?
Almen <almen@[EMAIL PR  2008-07-22 20:21:26 
Re: brighten foreground without abrupt edge?
Almen <almen@[EMAIL PR  2008-07-22 18:40:55 
Re: brighten foreground without abrupt edge?
Mike Russell <groupsRE  2008-07-22 13:37:43 

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