Photoshop Manipulation Help!

CSGAS · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:42

Hey guys!

I'm slowly getting my head around my new camera (s9500) but I really, really, really, don't have a clue about editing what I shoot in Photoshop.

What would really help me is for you to edit these two photos (for fun

) and tell me what you've done:

I was trying to get the 3 colour contrast

Trying to get a woodland/greenery feel

Also - I was shooting (stupidly) a lot of high contrast (light wise ie sky/ground) shots and suprise suprise the sky was hugely overexposed. Is the best way to get a decent shot in these conditions shoot 2 different expostures for sky and ground and then blend them?

Cheers!
Chris

Carrot · 25 Jul 2006 at 16:35

CSGAS said:
Also - I was shooting (stupidly) a lot of high contrast (light wise ie sky/ground) shots and suprise suprise the sky was hugely overexposed. Is the best way to get a decent shot in these conditions shoot 2 different expostures for sky and ground and then blend them?

Either that or expose for the sky and then bring the ground back in Photoshop.

CSGAS · 25 Jul 2006 at 16:47

Carrot said:
then bring the ground back in Photoshop.

How?

cloudy · 25 Jul 2006 at 16:59

I've just had time to play around with the first,

quick feathered mask for just the sky

knocked up the brightness+contrast + saturation + hue slightly positive

same again for the grass, just added some contrast to bring out the texture

then used the trick I was shown yesterday to duplicate the layer, set it to overlay and blur it slightly for a slight 'bloom' effect

The ground to tree mask was just a straight line so not perfect, but you get the idea - I don't know if this is what you were after....

Carrot · 25 Jul 2006 at 17:21

CSGAS said:
How?

Shadows/Highlights is the easiest way.

CSGAS · 25 Jul 2006 at 18:42

Errm how do you adjust Hue/Saturation in Quick Mask?

paradigm · 25 Jul 2006 at 18:57

Only had time for a quick play. If you like the results I can detail what I did:

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 25 Jul 2006 at 20:18

I had a quick few miniutes having a play.

Larger version available.
adjusted the curves after a base level reset. Duplicated the layer to delete half of one and fine tune the forground and using the burn tool, stroke some shadows into the forgeound to give an effect of wind blown.

mixed in some new greens for the trees.

Darkened the sky.

Belly · 25 Jul 2006 at 20:49

Fstop11 said:
adjusted the curves after a base level reset.
Darkened the sky.

I really like what you have done, it's splendid!

Would you please clarify "Adjusted the curves after a base level reset", I don't know what you mean by base level reset?

Auto Levels maybe?

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 25 Jul 2006 at 20:58

Belly said:
I really like what you have done, it's splendid!

Would you please clarify "Adjusted the curves after a base level reset", I don't know what you mean by base level reset?

Auto Levels maybe?

yes auto levels

Opening up the levels tool and there is an automatic adjustment in there. Then I made my personal adjustments.

CSGAS · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:44

paradigm said:
Only had time for a quick play. If you like the results I can detail what I did:

Thats it! Its got a real fresh look to it - exactly the look i'm looking for!

Tell me how!

SAM81 · 26 Jul 2006 at 12:00

again just doing what the others did really; messing with curves, duplicate layers to bring out the colours a bit more. also messed with the greens in the trees to highlight them a bit.