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stephendickey · Feb 1, 2004, 10:40 AM

Let me know what you think of these please!

slipe · Feb 1, 2004, 1:39 PM

A little dark for my tastes. This is some contrast masking applied in Photoshop. Might want to subdue the colors a little but I’m running out the door.

stephendickey · Feb 1, 2004, 2:29 PM

Nice job slipe!

Did you do this by making a copy of the background and then use the 'screen' blending mode? Is this what you mean by contrast masking?

Regards,

Steve

slipe · Feb 1, 2004, 2:50 PM

Made a copy of the background. Desaturated and inverted the layer so it is a B&W negative of the image. Merged in layers with overlay. Apply Gaussean blur to the B&W layer – somewhere in the 20-80 range. You can also reduce the opacity of the layer if you want a more subtle effect.

The sky ended up a little grainy so I applied some smart blur just to the selected blue in the sky. I also did my almost standard defogging – Unsharp mask with the radius around 200 and the amount around 17. Again you can make it more subtle with less amount but you need the large radius. It isn’t really a sharpening step – the image might do with some regular sharpening but I didn’t do any.

stephendickey · Feb 1, 2004, 2:54 PM

Thanks, it seems to produce nice results!!

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Feb 1, 2004, 1:39 PM	#2
slipe Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Indian Rocks Beach, FL Posts: 4,036	A little dark for my tastes. This is some contrast masking applied in Photoshop. Might want to subdue the colors a little but I’m running out the door.

Feb 1, 2004, 2:29 PM	#3
stephendickey Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 208	Nice job slipe! Did you do this by making a copy of the background and then use the 'screen' blending mode? Is this what you mean by contrast masking? Regards, Steve

Feb 1, 2004, 2:50 PM	#4
slipe Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Indian Rocks Beach, FL Posts: 4,036	Made a copy of the background. Desaturated and inverted the layer so it is a B&W negative of the image. Merged in layers with overlay. Apply Gaussean blur to the B&W layer – somewhere in the 20-80 range. You can also reduce the opacity of the layer if you want a more subtle effect. The sky ended up a little grainy so I applied some smart blur just to the selected blue in the sky. I also did my almost standard defogging – Unsharp mask with the radius around 200 and the amount around 17. Again you can make it more subtle with less amount but you need the large radius. It isn’t really a sharpening step – the image might do with some regular sharpening but I didn’t do any.

Feb 1, 2004, 2:54 PM	#5
stephendickey Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 208	Thanks, it seems to produce nice results!!