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Need some help with selective brightening...
on: July 22, 2006, 23:05:27 PM
I have a picture I took for a couple of friends today but stupidly I didnt whack the flash on to cancel out the backlight.

I have played with adjusting the brightness and I think I can do what I need to by bringing the level up by around 30%. My problem is that I cannot work out how to select my two friends and get them into their own layer (using PSP).

I will attach the picture if needed but Id prefer to be given some pointers...

I have tried "magic wanding" on RGB, Hue and Brightness with varying tollerance levels but they all select a load of stuff.

I have tried free handing the selection but I cannot get it accurate enough :/

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Re:Need some help with selective brightening...
Reply #1 on: July 22, 2006, 23:10:02 PM
give us a look then. hard to say without really seeing the problem. Its not gay porn is it????
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Re:Need some help with selective brightening...
Reply #2 on: July 22, 2006, 23:25:59 PM
hahaha, no...I know youd like that but its not :p


Ok, here it is :o





Click on it for the Bigger Picture ;)
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Re:Need some help with selective brightening...
Reply #3 on: July 22, 2006, 23:45:08 PM
I dont think its that bad. Maybe set up the dodge brush to about 30% opacity and colour over them?





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Re:Need some help with selective brightening...
Reply #4 on: July 23, 2006, 00:17:36 AM
Use a lassoo tool and then brighten the area selected

Ill see what I can do.
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Need some help with selective brightening...
Reply #5 on: July 23, 2006, 00:17:55 AM
Ahh now thats clever, howd you do that ?

lol.

I am such a nub when it comes to this sort of thing; I write the tools, I dont use them :p
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Re:Need some help with selective brightening...
Reply #6 on: July 23, 2006, 00:18:51 AM
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Use a lassoo tool and then brighten the area selected


I tried that but I cannot get it accurate enough. I end up brightening a little bit of a border around them which becomes blindingly apparent when you view the whole image :/
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Reply #7 on: July 23, 2006, 00:22:10 AM
Its the dodge/burn tool.

Lassooing is too inaccurate so i used that to just paint over the area i needed lightened
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Re:Need some help with selective brightening...
Reply #8 on: July 23, 2006, 00:37:31 AM
try feathering the edge
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Reply #9 on: July 23, 2006, 00:43:08 AM
Ill give it a go in a bit using the gimp and the magic scissors. :D
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Re:Need some help with selective brightening...
Reply #10 on: July 23, 2006, 00:49:43 AM
Not too bad but maxi will probably outdo me, pic is clicky ;)

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Need some help with selective brightening...
Reply #11 on: July 23, 2006, 01:44:38 AM
oh grrr, thats not bad either :p

Is it just me or in all of these pictures, original included, do the couple look *fake* ?
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Reply #12 on: July 23, 2006, 01:53:28 AM
yeah.



I fooled around with it, and it always looked horrid because of the huge contrast changes in the background, I mean, you could lower the level range and grey out the sky and make them pop, but it looked completely fake-aroo.

So I found me a pyramid...
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Need some help with selective brightening...
Reply #13 on: July 23, 2006, 02:06:59 AM
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oh grrr, thats not bad either :p

Is it just me or in all of these pictures, original included, do the couple look *fake* ?


Thats an issue of distance from the background, makes them stick out a lot.

TBH I have found it rather difficult to sort out her face properly, needs a red reduction to balance it :/

Still I think the above is good enough for a snap and if yours are of a similar quality they should be happy with the result ;)

Forgot to say I did it in PSP 9, selected the lasso tool then set the feathering to a suitable level before I grabbed the faces. ITs mainly the Adjust/Photo Fix/Fill Flash option but its best to play around with the options and use undo if you dont like the result.

Left to its own automatic repair option it made a right royal *up of it.
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Re:Need some help with selective brightening...
Reply #14 on: July 23, 2006, 03:32:16 AM

full size

I personly went for a faux DOF efect I felt it was the sharp back drop that was causing the distraction
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