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 :/

give us a look then. hard to say without really seeing the problem. Its not gay porn is it?

hahaha, no...I know youd like that but its not


Ok, here it is





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I dont think its that bad. Maybe set up the dodge brush to about 30% opacity and colour over them?

Use a lassoo tool and then brighten the area selected

Ill see what I can do.

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

Quote from: SeriousUse 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 :/

Its the dodge/burn tool.

Lassooing is too inaccurate so i used that to just paint over the area i needed lightened

try feathering the edge

Ill give it a go in a bit using the gimp and the magic scissors.

Not too bad but maxi will probably outdo me, pic is clicky

oh grrr, thats not bad either

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

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...

Quote from: Nimrodoh grrr, thats not bad either

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