Joe a =E9crit :
> Almen <almen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> peter a =E9crit :
>>> I have a photo with people in foreground and sunset in background. Th=
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>>> exposure of sunset is good, the people are too dark (see sample photo=
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>>> I want to select the people and brighten them.
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>>> After selecting the people (using magic wand multiple times), I found=
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>>> necessary to feather 1 pixel (#4), otherwise, after brightening the p=
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>>> the edges would be too abrupt. But even this is not ideal; the result=
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>>> 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 =
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>>> obvious edges (#5, #6)
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>>> The best solution I found is to feather by 1 pixel and fix each of th=
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>>> problem areas by hand (#7 last photo). But this takes a lot of time. =
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>>> there a solution that involve less manual labor?
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>>> http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/5490046_o37yZ
>>>
>>> Using photoshop CS2.=20
>>>
>>>
>> Hi,
>> Have you tried the shadows/highligth command ?
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> Shadow/Hi-lite usually shadow/hi-lite the whole image not to the speci=
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> area. I believe it has few extra option like more/less to darker/brigh=
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> but still pretty limit comparing to advanced trick.
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>> For example : http://dl.free.fr/pvUV0gxHD/335747122_0(2).jpg
In the Peter's image, the characters are rather dark and the sky is=20
rather bright. So even if the command processes the whole image, it=20
brightens only the characters.
You can look at the corrected image :
http://dl.free.fr/pvUV0gxHD/335747122_0(2).jpg
The command is :
Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight
and the do***entation on the command :
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/10.0/index.html


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