Paul is thinking in the right direction, but improving the rendition of those peaks is like squeezing blood from a stone, and the outcome will always be a touch harsh. The fix you want is right there in the lake. The mirror image of the peaks looks perfect at this resolution (I don't know about full rez, though). Simply copy the shot to a new layer, and do a vertical flip on the background layer. You'll need to nudge the bottom layer around until it's in register with the top layer, perhaps even a little vertical rescaling may be required. When the peaks in the reflection are aligned with the peaks in the original picture, then gently erase the blown out details, and the nice details from the bottom layer will appear. Be careful anywhere there are differences, such as the reflected tree which intrudes onto the cliff face in the reflected image.
Of course this is all moot if the reflection is anything less than perfect. It would be better if you had bracketed the shot and you had a darker image to extract highlight details from. Please tell me you bracketed (bracketing is not just a film thing). regards, Anthony Farr On 30/10/2007, Paul Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marnie - > > Layers are your friend(s)... ;>) > > I've never had much luck w/the Burn Tool. Things seem to get a little > muddy when using it. I played w/your pix a little and came up w/this. > I'll remove it from the web w/in 24 hours...sooner if you'd like. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/marnie's_yosemite.jpg > > http://tinyurl.com/29xlct > > The background mountains were selected and copied to a new layer and the > blend mode for that layer changed to "multiply". That made the > mountains in shadow a little too dark and the sunlit ones still too > light. I hit the mountains in shadow w/the erase tool at about 50% > opacity and re-copied just the sunlit peaks to a third layer, applied > the "multiply" blend mode again and flattened the image to a new jpg. > > I think it defines the mountains in the background a little better. > > HTH > > -p > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
