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Hi all,

I'm looking for some ideas of PP the following shot taken in a cloudy day to have an "Autumn Leaf" feeling. I tried in Nikon NX but am not satisfied with the result.

Here's the original file:



Here's my pp:



Thanks for looking
Mark
 
Ray

 
Sorry for the dead link, I just upload to new location:
original pic no sharpen applied:



Here's my initial attempt:

 
Ray, I like yours. How you make the leaves yellow/red while maintaining the green of the grass?
Mark
 
All I did was to create an adjustment layer for levels.

Then I went to the red channel and pulled the red to the left and pulled the blue to the righ (from centre poinys)

That made it more red etc.

Then I made a new layer and set mode to colour.

I then painted with a red/brown brush to get some colour to the trees etc.

Adjust opacity of that layer.

Then I flattened.

I then duplicated image and set top layer to soft light.

Set the opacity to about 50% and flattened.

Hope that helps

Best wishes

Ray
 


Sometimes less is more. I just add Hue/Sat in layers. All added some Darkness to make colors pop more.
 
Adjusted levels, then used two blank layers for the trees, one in color mode, the other (above) in overlay mode. Used a wet media brush with about 20% scatter and 100% hue jitter -- reds, oranges, yellows.

For scattered leaves on the ground, used replace color on those. Darkened the sky with selective color (whites).



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~ Peano
 
I used TM brush 587 and did this entirely with that on a 58% overlay layer and a color burn 65% layer. Then I flattened, duplicated the BG and set it at 40% overlay.

Sal

 
Is the 20% scatter and 100% hue jitter on a wet media brush only available in PSCS2. I can't find it in PSCS, unless I'm looking in the wrong place.

Thanks for your help.

-Frank
 
Mtn Man said:
Is the 20% scatter and 100% hue jitter on a wet media brush only
available in PSCS2. I can't find it in PSCS, unless I'm looking in
the wrong place.

Thanks for your help.

-Frank
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You can vary the scatter and hue jitter on almost any brush. I have wet media brushes in Elements 3, so you must have them in CS.
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~ Peano
 
Peano said:
You can vary the scatter and hue jitter on almost any brush. I have
wet media brushes in Elements 3, so you must have them in CS.
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Also, there's a brush set called "Pen Pressure," and in it is one called "Confetti." I don't know whether this is a standard set; not sure where I got it. But if you have it, this one would work nicely for coloring leaves.



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~ Peano
 
Here's one under Wed Media Brushes called "Dry Scatter Brush." If you push the jitter up to 100% and set red and orange as your colors, here's what you get. Not bad for coloring leaves ...



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~ Peano
 
Thanks Peano:

You say that the jitter and hue scatter can be adjusted on a brush, but I only see the brush diameter as being adjustable, what am I missing?

This has been very enlightening, I can see I've got a lot to lean about brushes
 
Mtn Man said:
Thanks Peano:

You say that the jitter and hue scatter can be adjusted on a brush,
but I only see the brush diameter as being adjustable, what am I
missing?
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Look in your help files index under "Brushes" and see if they have something about "brush dynamics" or "brush options." That should tell you where the controls are located. I only know where they are in Elements.
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~ Peano
 
Look at the top right "palette well".

There should be a brushes palette where you can customise the brush including hue jitter under color dynamics.
Have the brush tool active.

Andrew
 
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