Thanks, Moose! I've printed that out and will try it. I need to learn
Neat Image.
Tina
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/24/2013 2:37 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> > Yes, I hate the white specks and usually get rid of them with Polaroid
> D&S
> > filter but that means closing down PS64 and opening PS32 so I can use the
> > filter.
>
> I tried the Polaroid filter when you first mentioned it. Seemed to work
> pretty well in areas with no detail, but really
> whacks detail. BTW, it an old product from a defunct company. The
> developer has undoubtedly moved on, and on. Who knows
> who may have the source code, let alone legal rights to it. There will
> never be an upgrade.
>
> > How did you get rid of the spots?
>
> Mostly NeatImage. I quite often use different amounts of NI for different
> parts of an image, using masks. In this case,
> a mighty whack with NI at all three adjustable frequencies, plus Very Low
> freq., knocked out the speckling in the
> shadows, which left a few previously unnoticed dust specks that I cleaned
> up.
>
> I have Actions for Select Highlights and Select Shadows and will often
> make a layer with a different brightness (Yup,
> another Action) only for the purpose of tuning what those Actions select.
> Here, I upped brightness quite a bit on a
> temporary level, selected Shadows, applied that as a mask to the real
> heavy NI layer, and deleted the work layer.
> Usually quicker and easier than a lot of mask painting.
>
> I used a much lower type/amount of NR on the parts with light.
>
> Even after the NI treatment, the detail less area, lower left, had a sort
> of amorphous, mottled look, along with a
> darker, swirled thing that I took to be swipes of something during
> processing, perhaps the healing brush.
>
> So I selected that area, used the dropper at large size to sample the
> overall tone of the area, then filled it with
> that. I think that's better than pure black. As you may be able to see,
> the edges of the image are still, barely,
> distinguishable against a pure black surround.
>
> Then I very gently feathered the edges of that mask to blend it into the
> rest of the image. That's what gives the smooth
> black that I think looks good there.
>
> The other deep shadow areas must be ever so lightly more exposed, and
> looked fine, without the mottling with just the NI.
>
> Post Master Moose*
>
> * Still delivering every day. ;-)
>
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