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Gary · Postby **Gary** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:23 am

I did the mask in PS4 I am afraid that the CM mask pallet is over my head at this point.

Gary

Postby **mikemeister_admin** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:02 am

Masking in PSE. Masks in C are not yet mastered by me. Yes I played a bit:)
Thomas

Postby **mikemeister_admin** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:25 pm

Masking in CM is dark area, I guess we will learn soon how to handle that baby. I did masking in CS3, Color range is good tool plus refine edge.

Postby **mikemeister_admin** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:28 pm

Here is my first try. I used Curvemeister wizard as I am new in CM. Flattened the sea level and did a little cropping first.

Continued with adjustments of the sky in Curve with masking. As the picture does not look very sharp I sharpened it with highpass filter.

Friedhelm

ggroess · Postby **ggroess** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:23 pm

Wow you guys are doing a very nice job here....bringing lots of tools to the problem and making good choices....
I'm going to have to make the next one a bit tougher....

Greg

Postby **mikemeister_admin** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:38 am

A slope to the saturation and an s curveto the brightness in HSB,then sharpening.I wanted four colors to the lighthouse and some detail to the sea.My first image was a portrait crop with the lghthse in upper left corner and the seagrasses lower right but I ran out of pixels so I applied the corrections to the entire image. GregM

ggroess · Postby **ggroess** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:33 pm

Both look good.

I have the image as both Horz and Vert...I'll have to revisit the Vert and see if I like it....
Good job on the sky...

Greg

Postby **mikemeister_admin** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:48 pm

Same tools used as before but tried to be a bit more careful with gradient tool. Also increased saturation of lighthouse and some shadow/highlight correction. Still not satisfied with sky.
Thomas

ggroess · Postby **ggroess** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:04 pm

For a quick and dirty solution try the pin files...There is a pin in the "nature" tab called Glenco Sky...see screen shot
Drag the pin up to the sky and drag it around until you find a sky color you like.

If you are in LAB you might want to set a solid neutral first so the rest of the image does not get too messed up.
Let me know how that works out....

Greg

Postby **mikemeister_admin** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:58 pm

Rest of picture lost colour and got hue. How do I set a solid grey?
//Thomas

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