Moose,
I will turn 85 in a couple of weeks. At this point in my life, I had
rather spend my time getting out and taking pictures, rather than
sitting at the computer, learning a new skill. I suspect there will be
some youth sports images when the weather gets nicer. There are ten
great-grandkids to provide subjects.
Thanks for the outline of the process. If I should get confined to the
house for some reason, it might be a worthwhile challenge. :-)
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 3/22/2015 4:33 PM, Moose wrote:
On 3/22/2015 12:32 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
I have never mastered "layers", and now, after Elements 12 wouldn't
run on my new computer, I am using Picture Window Pro,
[Visual of AG, doing Happy Dance.]
which has excellent tools, but they are different from the PS
process. And, having done little post processing for the past year, I
am having to learn the trade all over again.
Did you use "layers" in your processing of this image?
[Image of Moose, falling down, laughing helplessly.]
I wonder why you pit 'layers' in quotes. Do you do that when talking
about a cake? They are exactly analogous to the layers of clear
cellophane/plastic film used in visualizing multi-layered aspects of
buildings, machinery, etc. and in old fashioned animation.
Where you paint a layer's mask black, whatever is on that part of it
becomes invisible, so whatever is below is seen. The white parts of
the layer mask allow what's on the layer to show, like the
painting/printing on a physical layer that overlays part(s) of the
ones below with new imagery. Painting parts an intermediate shade
makes that part of the image on the layer translucent, to a degree
determined by the darkness of the gray on the mask.
I'm sure you've seen the kinds of physical representations of
different floors, levels, etc. of a physical thing on layers of
transparent film. PS layers are just like that.
There were something over a dozen layers in this image as I worked on
it. I'm not suggesting anyone else might use so many. But I use them
profligately. Eyes need to be a little different, another layer. Face
needs slightly different WB than the rest? Duplicate a new layer,
select the face, click on the mask icon on the bottom, and I have a
layer I can manipulate that will just change the face.
I have Actions (macros) set up for all the primary tools I use. If I'm
going to use Curves, LCE, Levels, NR, etc., I click on an Action which
duplicates the existing layer I'm on, then opens the tool to operate
on that layer.
All this is really powerful. Not only in what one may do locally, but
in the ability to change, radically, or subtly, or entirely undo, what
I've done to a part of the image. I only have to alter the layer(s)
carrying that part of the image, without any effect on later work I've
done on other parts. Layers may be clicked to make them visible or
not, to see what they have done.
Broody Hen Moose
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