Re: A face only a mother could love!

Good Mornin' Mark!

Thank you, kindly, for the PS-7 lesson in controlling blown highlights.

I've tried both your methods, and the first works, but the second works better. 
 I suspect, for this particular photo, that the complex method, followed by a 
very subtle adjustment using the first, would work even better.

A very informative and educational post and I thank you for it.  :-)

Ya learn somthin' new, ever' day!

As for Logan Lake... it's about a 3.5 hour drive NE of Vancouver BC.

On most maps, you can easily find Kamloops, in south central BC. Logan Lake is 
about a 35 minute drive south and west of Kamloops.

It's a small town of 2,500, nestled in the mountains. It gets hot (28 to 33 
degrees [82 to 90 in the US]) on summer days but cools to around 12 (53F) or so 
at night, so you can sleep without A/C!

There have been a half dozen bears wandering through town, so far, this year.  
And we are told that, come fall, they LOVE the crab-apple tree in our front 
yard.  But, you have to keep your pets in at night; as the coyotes rule the 
streets, after dark.

LOTS of wildlife, to photograph!

You'd like it here.  :-)

Thanks again, for all your help!

Cheers!

David.


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On 22/06/2005 at 3:31 PM Mark Bohrer wrote:

>David:
>Here's the simplest way to approach it first:
>Open the image in PS 7.0. If you haven't already, click on the new layer
>icon at the bottom of the layer palette (the icon is in the middle and
>looks like a slightly askew half-moon). Then click on 'Levels' in the menu
>that appears. In the levels box, click on 'options' (bottom button). In
>the
>Auto Color Correction Options box that appears, choose the 'Enhance
>Monochromatic Contrast' radio button and change the highlight clip amount
>to 0.01. Leave the shadow clip amount at 0.5. Then click OK. (This darkens
>the highlights and brightens the shadows a little, important before you do
>what comes next).
>
>Now in the levels box, adjust the slider below the histogram until the
>blown highlight starts to darken, or at least until the area around it
>darkens. If the highlight had some detail in it, the highlight will
>darken.
>Otherwise darkening the area around it is the best you can do. Click OK
>when you like what you've got.
>
>The more complex approach:
>Find the magnetic lasso tool in the Actions palette (looks like an upside
>down coat hanger). Click on it and use it to carefully outline the
>blown-out area you want to lighten with your mouse. (I use my trackball to
>do this for small areas but I have a Wacom Intuos 2 graphics tablet and
>pen
>for large ones.) Then click on the new layer icon, choose levels from the
>menu that appears, and adjust the slider to darken the blown area you
>outlined. Only the outlined area gets darkened, but you'll probably need a
>subtle correction since the border between darkened and undarkened parts
>will be starkly distinct.
>
>Hope some of this works!
>
>Where is Logan Lake, anyway?
>
>


David Young,
Logan Lake, BC
CANADA.

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