I didn't get a clean selection with the wand either since I was only
willing to work on it for about 30 seconds. It wasn't good enough to be
considered a finished image but it was good enough to make the
foreground foliage pop out of the background.
I'm glad we're on this subject because it reminded me that, for quite
some time now, I've been meaning to buy Katrin Eismann's masking book
<http://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-Masking-Compositing-VOICES-Eismann/dp/0735712794/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I1T320R8HXF6L3&colid=12PAYDK1BNR07>
in hopes that I might one day come close to the Moose's masking skills.
My daughter asked yesterday for a Christmas gift suggestion and I
couldn't think of one. Now I know.
Chuck Norcutt
Jim Nichols wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> I tried your suggestion, but, for my talents, the subject is too complicated
> to get a clean selection with the wand. I will leave it as shown.
>
> In the image linked below, I was able to get the desired separation. I will
> show it to illustrate that I agree with what you say about this sort of
> image.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Rose+532.tif.html
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Finally, Some Rain Drops
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>> Looks good but I wondered what it might look like with some more
>> background blurring as you might get with a 35mm camera or full frame
>> digital and longer focal length lens. Using the magic wand to quickly
>> select on most things green and then applying a gaussian blur of about
>> 3.5 pixel radius (on your small web image) makes those red leaves pop
>> out away from the background. Looks a bit more 3-dimensional.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> After our extended dry spell, we have finally had some light rain off
>>> and on. I looked for rainy day images, and found nothing
>>> spectacular, but did capture a few raindrops on fall colors.
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Raindrops.tif.html
>>>
>>> Oly E-510, Zuiko 14-54 at 54mm
>>>
>>> Critiques and comments welcomed.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
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