 Robert F. Wilson |
Darkening the sky only in PS2
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Paul Tobeck |
To darken a sky, I usually duplicate the background layer and set the blending mode to Multiply. Adjust the opacity until the sky looks right. I then add a layer mask, fill it with white to reveal all, then paint black over the foreground details I want to stay normal. I start painting at 100% opacity at the bottom, then reduce the opacity to 50% and build it up as I get near the transition line. I find this method makes for a smoother, less detectable transition in a print than trying to feather a selection.
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Robert F. Wilson |
Paul, My first step is to bring the tiff image into photoshop, then how do you duplicate the background layer if the image is all one layer to begin with..?
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Paul Tobeck |
You can do it one of two ways. You can go to the Layer menu at the top, scroll down and click on duplicate. Or, you can just drag the background layer to the little icon that looks like a sheet of paper with a bent corner inside the layers pallette. Are you using Elements 2? If you are, I don't know if you'll be able to add a mask to a layer directly. Do you have the ability to add an adjustment layer? It would be listed in the layers menu and you would have a cirle icon, half black/half white, next to the duplicate layer icon in the layers pallete. Let me know, or if someone else is reading this that is familiar with Elements 2 knows. Here's a link to a page where you can get a download that will restore some of Photoshops features in Elements, and instructions on how to use them. You may find it handy.
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