I'm going to have to make time to finish doing the tutorial I have on layer
masks!!
Thanks!
Tina
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Paul Laughlin <pelaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Okay, lets see if I can do this. LOL
> First, I applied noise reduction with Noise Ninja. And saved that image.
> Then I duplicated the background layer and used the Multiply blend mode
> to darken the image. I flattened the image and saved it separately. I
> then duplicated the background layer again and again applied the
> Multiply blend mode to darken the image even more. Again flattened the
> image and saved as a separate image.
> I opened the noise reduction image and duplicated the background layer.
> I then selected the father and the kids and made a layer mask. I
> applied the screen blend mode to brighten this layer.
> Then I brought in the two dark images as layers with the darkest one on
> top. I turned off the visibility of the darkest one and, on the lighter
> one of the darker layers, made a rough selection of the sun glare in the
> middle of the back and made a layer mask of it. I then touched it up
> with the brush using black and white to paint with on the layer mask.
> Then I turned on the visibility of the darkest one and did the same
> thing with it.
> After fooling around with the various layers, I then did a stamp visible
> to make a new layer combining all the other layers and applied high pass
> sharpening with soft light blend mode.
> I hope that I got this straight and that it makes some semblance of
> sense. For someone with the experience and knowhow, this would only
> take a few minutes. For me, it takes longer and I do learn by my
> mistakes. LOL
> I have the psd file, but can't figure out how to post it so you can
> download it. Maybe attache it to a private email? With layers it is
> larger.
> Paul in Portland OR
>
>
> On 2/18/2013 6:00 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> > Looks great to me! Tell me what you did.
>
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