Tim, I agree with Christian and Marnie that the original is better than your present attempt. The highlights look blown on my screen as well. Besides, I think the dark areas in the original adds to the feeling of gloominess, even if it mutes the visibility of the sleet.
Since you are looking into painting dodge/burn effects into a separate layer, maybe this technique can be the next step: http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/tutorials/PSE_MaskBlendEP.shtml The beauty of it is that you can use it with any kind of adjustment layer. Credits to Godfrey who explained this to me six months ago. :-) Jostein 2007/5/29, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Still working on my PS skills, and are in need of some more feedback. > > Both are at my bad site. > Origenal http://www.photosight.org/photo.php?photoid=58978&ref=author > The main problem here is lack of seperation between birds and rocks. > > The improved version: > http://www.photosight.org/photo.php?photoid=60124&ref=author > Basically I have dodged the rocks, and burned the birds. Used a technique by > Scott Kelby that lets med paint the d/b at a 50% gray layer. > Also altered the saturation. Encreaced a bit at the problem birds, and > decreaced at the rocks. And I've toned down red to lessen the beaks of the > background birds.. > Also used Levels in two separate operations. Mainly boosted shadows to give > the background birds a bit more punch. > Thats about it. Exept some light USM. > Almost forgot. Toned down green to lessen green CA in the oystercatchers > chests, and cloned away some purple fringe in the foreground birds. > > > What do you think? Worth the effort? > Suggestions for better approaches? > > Please be honest in a gentle way. > PS'ing is one of my soft spots. But I definately do need honest and > construktive feedback. > > Tim Typo > Mostly Harmless > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
