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Re: [OM] Angels, SP and LR

Subject: Re: [OM] Angels, SP and LR
From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:21:55 +0200
None of the edits has the graceful look of Mike's original - colour  
shift or lack of depth due to cables looking thicker are the main cause
I think Mike's shot is overexposed 1/3rd click though
Amitiés
Philippe

Le 6 juin 13 à 04:03, Moose a écrit :

> On 6/3/2013 8:35 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
>> Dan Margulis has an interesting technique for getting rid of halos  
>> in his
>> book on Modern Photoshop Color Workflow which I am still working my  
>> way
>> through.  For the technique:  "Sample the color of the sky outside  
>> of the
>> halo.  Set the paintbrush to the width of the halo, choose Mode -  
>> Darker
>> Color, opacity 60% and paint the halo away."  It works better than  
>> anything
>> else I've tried!
>
> That's my fallback technique, detail painting. However, I always do  
> it to the mask on a layer, rather than direct. That
> way, slips, including those not noticed until later, are easy to  
> correct.
>
> For many subjects, an overall approach at least as least equally  
> effective, and MUCH quicker and easier. Mike's recent
> TOPE image is an example. The ShadowHighlight tool and LCE left lots  
> of halos. The tower, above and below, and the
> roadway are most obvious, but there's also halo around all the  
> cables, unevenly brightening the sky between them
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Marnie/Bunker_Hill_Bridge.htm 
> >.
>
> I took a copy layer of the Background layer, used Select=>Color to  
> select just the sky, and applied it as a mask. Moving
> that layer above the LCE layer wipes out the halos in one swoop. Can  
> you imagine painting those out???
>
> Reversing the mask on a sharpening layer controls sharpening  
> effects, too.
>
> I use this same general approach to create a sky mask almost always.  
> Then the painting as above is done to the mask.
> Much more subtle results along difficult borders of leaves, etc. are  
> fairly easy this way. Often, only part of the
> haloed edges need painting.
>
> Once I have that masked layer, I can also adjust sky brightness,  
> contrast, etc. separately. Here, I didn't, but I often do.
>
> Masked Halo Moose
>
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