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Vera said:
Vera said:
Sheri99 said:
Hi Mike, that's a good lookin' motorcycle! Thanks for your comments
on the action.

The cycle looks great but you are getting some newly blow
highlights in the road and car behind it. Maybe it happened in your
Brightness-Contrast adjustment layer? I've just been using that
layer for slight adjustments to contrast.

Regards,
Sheri
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--heres my before and after. i think somewhere along the way i
would make a history snapshot so i could paint back in some of the
original areas. this has lightened a really poorly exposed photo
brilliantly in some areas. this photo was taken by a japanese
tourist who obviously focussed on the opera house ( why not) and
also i didnt adjust zoom or ev for her.
you have bought me and the kids out of the shadows but maybe the
effect is a little too universal. next time I will set the history
and make a small adjustment at the end





Vera
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--does not want to link so its
http://www.pbase.com/image/22848396/large
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Vera said:
Vera
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Mike Warren said:
Vera said:
Sheri99 said:
Hi Mike, that's a good lookin' motorcycle! Thanks for your comments
on the action.

The cycle looks great but you are getting some newly blow
highlights in the road and car behind it. Maybe it happened in your
Brightness-Contrast adjustment layer? I've just been using that
layer for slight adjustments to contrast.

Regards,
Sheri
Click to expand...
--heres my before and after. i think somewhere along the way i
would make a history snapshot so i could paint back in some of the
original areas. this has lightened a really poorly exposed photo
brilliantly in some areas. this photo was taken by a japanese
tourist who obviously focussed on the opera house ( why not) and
also i didnt adjust zoom or ev for her.
you have bought me and the kids out of the shadows but maybe the
effect is a little too universal. next time I will set the history
and make a small adjustment at the end





Vera
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--
Mike
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http://www.pbase.com/mikew714
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Vera
 
Vera said:
Mike Warren said:
Vera said:
Sheri99 said:
Hi Mike, that's a good lookin' motorcycle! Thanks for your comments
on the action.

The cycle looks great but you are getting some newly blow
highlights in the road and car behind it. Maybe it happened in your
Brightness-Contrast adjustment layer? I've just been using that
layer for slight adjustments to contrast.

Regards,
Sheri
Click to expand...
--heres my before and after. i think somewhere along the way i
would make a history snapshot so i could paint back in some of the
original areas. this has lightened a really poorly exposed photo
brilliantly in some areas. this photo was taken by a japanese
tourist who obviously focussed on the opera house ( why not) and
also i didnt adjust zoom or ev for her.
you have bought me and the kids out of the shadows but maybe the
effect is a little too universal. next time I will set the history
and make a small adjustment at the end





Vera
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--
Mike
---
http://www.pbase.com/mikew714
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--
Vera
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--we couldnt believe it when we were staying in adams mass in 99 October

People come from all over to go leaf peeping in vermont and go to the pumpkin farm to choose the best looking pumpkin. we got a huge laugh out of that mate. you guys take halloween so seriously. I love the digital pumpkin patch. excellent stuff
Vera
 
Vera said:
Vera said:
Sheri99 said:
Hi Mike, that's a good lookin' motorcycle! Thanks for your comments
on the action.

The cycle looks great but you are getting some newly blow
highlights in the road and car behind it. Maybe it happened in your
Brightness-Contrast adjustment layer? I've just been using that
layer for slight adjustments to contrast.

Regards,
Sheri
Click to expand...
--heres my before and after. i think somewhere along the way i
would make a history snapshot so i could paint back in some of the
original areas. this has lightened a really poorly exposed photo
brilliantly in some areas. this photo was taken by a japanese
tourist who obviously focussed on the opera house ( why not) and
also i didnt adjust zoom or ev for her.
you have bought me and the kids out of the shadows but maybe the
effect is a little too universal. next time I will set the history
and make a small adjustment at the end





Vera
Click to expand...
--does not want to link so its
http://www.pbase.com/image/22848396/large
Vera
Click to expand...
--



Vera
 
Vera said:
Vera said:
--heres my before and after. i think somewhere along the way i
would make a history snapshot so i could paint back in some of the
original areas. this has lightened a really poorly exposed photo
brilliantly in some areas. this photo was taken by a japanese
tourist who obviously focussed on the opera house ( why not) and
also i didnt adjust zoom or ev for her.
you have bought me and the kids out of the shadows but maybe the
effect is a little too universal. next time I will set the history
and make a small adjustment at the end





Vera
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--does not want to link so its
http://www.pbase.com/image/22848396/large
Vera
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Sheri's atn did improve the detain in the shadows. I agree a history brush layer would help to make everything balanced.

Mike
---
http://www.pbase.com/mikew714
 
Vera said:
Vera said:
Mike Warren said:
Vera said:
Sheri99 said:
Hi Mike, that's a good lookin' motorcycle! Thanks for your comments
on the action.

The cycle looks great but you are getting some newly blow
highlights in the road and car behind it. Maybe it happened in your
Brightness-Contrast adjustment layer? I've just been using that
layer for slight adjustments to contrast.

Regards,
Sheri
Click to expand...
--heres my before and after. i think somewhere along the way i
would make a history snapshot so i could paint back in some of the
original areas. this has lightened a really poorly exposed photo
brilliantly in some areas. this photo was taken by a japanese
tourist who obviously focussed on the opera house ( why not) and
also i didnt adjust zoom or ev for her.
you have bought me and the kids out of the shadows but maybe the
effect is a little too universal. next time I will set the history
and make a small adjustment at the end





Vera
Click to expand...
--
Mike
---
http://www.pbase.com/mikew714
Click to expand...
--
Vera
Click to expand...
--we couldnt believe it when we were staying in adams mass in 99
October
People come from all over to go leaf peeping in vermont and go to
the pumpkin farm to choose the best looking pumpkin. we got a huge
laugh out of that mate. you guys take halloween so seriously. I
love the digital pumpkin patch. excellent stuff
Vera
Click to expand...
--
Mike
---
http://www.pbase.com/mikew714
 
Kent C said:
Kent C said:
--heres my before and after.
Click to expand...
Kent C said:
http://www.pbase.com/image/22848395/large
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Kent C said:
http://www.pbase.com/image/22848396/large
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Wow it even changed the camera angle and moved a kid!! Quite an
action!! :-)

Regenerate thumbnail on the last image.

--
Kent
http://www.pbase.com/kentc
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--by mistake lol but you get the general idea.
those japenese tourists are pretty quick on the shutter lol
gave me my best laugh of the day
those kids are quick arn't they

Vera
 
Vera said:
Kent C said:
Vera said:
--heres my before and after.
Click to expand...
Vera said:
http://www.pbase.com/image/22848395/large
Click to expand...
Vera said:
http://www.pbase.com/image/22848396/large
Click to expand...
Wow it even changed the camera angle and moved a kid!! Quite an
action!! :-)

Regenerate thumbnail on the last image.

--
Kent
http://www.pbase.com/kentc
Click to expand...
--by mistake lol but you get the general idea.
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Yep. Looks good.
Vera said:
those japenese tourists are pretty quick on the shutter lol
gave me my best laugh of the day
those kids are quick arn't they
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Sure are :-)

--
Kent
http://www.pbase.com/kentc
 
Vera said:
i think somewhere along the way i
would make a history snapshot so i could paint back in some of the
original areas. this has lightened a really poorly exposed photo
brilliantly in some areas. this photo was taken by a japanese
tourist who obviously focussed on the opera house ( why not) and
also i didnt adjust zoom or ev for her.
you have bought me and the kids out of the shadows but maybe the
effect is a little too universal. next time I will set the history
and make a small adjustment at the end
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I hear you. But its very difficult to disguise the transition areas when you try to confne the effect to the foreground figures. For best results you basically have to extract them to have a good selection for the purpose. Not everyone is up to the task. Fortunately its not necessary most of the time.

Regards,
Sheri
 
iiyama said:
Please help a Dumbo!!!..have d/loaded..now what???..can find no instructions..just the prog...leon
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Hi Leon,

Unzip the atn file that is inside the zip file. It can be anywhere on your hard disk. Then in Photoshop, from the Action Palette flyout, select Load Actions and browse to the atn file. To use the action you have to expand the action set, highlight the action's name, and press the play button. But you should first have an image loaded.

The new Action Set with its one action will stay in your Action Palette, you shouldn't have to load it again. (well, until there is a new version).

The Action Palette can be acessed from the Window menu. The flyout can be seen by clicking the little right-pointing arrow at the top of the Action Palette.

Hope it helps,
Sheri
 
Sheri99 said:
iiyama said:
Please help a Dumbo!!!..have d/loaded..now what???..can find no instructions..just the prog...leon
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Hi Leon,

Unzip the atn file that is inside the zip file. It can be anywhere
on your hard disk. Then in Photoshop, from the Action Palette
flyout, select Load Actions and browse to the atn file. To use the
action you have to expand the action set, highlight the action's
name, and press the play button. But you should first have an image
loaded.

Hi Sheri..Many thanks...What a fab prog...leon..u.k
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Thanks ....works great!!
Sheri99 said:
Especially for PS 7 users. Tested on dull landscapes and backlit
people on the beach. No need for masking and so far results compare
favorably with the new CS feature.

http://home.comcast.net/~silvermoonwoman/psaction/shadow_highlight_adjustment.zip

Have learned alot from this group and hope this action will be
useful to some of you. I haven't done many actions (maybe I should
call it beta), but have recorded some fairly complex activity and
tried to make it both flexible and tailored to each given image.
You just have to adjust to taste the opacity of two layers (doubled
screen for the Shadows adjustment and doubled multiply for
adjusting Highlights), plus the contrast in an adjustment layer.

Technical detail, this action selects feathered luminosity and
feathered inverse luminosity as input to the blended layers.

Enjoy,
Sheri
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Sheri99 said:
iiyama said:
Please help a Dumbo!!!..have d/loaded..now what???..can find no instructions..just the prog...leon
Click to expand...
Hi Leon,

Unzip the atn file that is inside the zip file. It can be anywhere
on your hard disk. Then in Photoshop, from the Action Palette
flyout, select Load Actions and browse to the atn file. To use the
action you have to expand the action set, highlight the action's
name, and press the play button. But you should first have an image
loaded.

The new Action Set with its one action will stay in your Action
Palette, you shouldn't have to load it again. (well, until there is
a new version).

The Action Palette can be acessed from the Window menu. The flyout
can be seen by clicking the little right-pointing arrow at the top
of the Action Palette.

Hope it helps,
Sheri
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on a seperate thread had trouble with pbase and then posted the wrong picture. I think you action worked brilliantly on people in shadow and it is no problem to use the history brush or a rough selection on areas which are not quite right. I think when i get used to using the action it will work even better.
thanks for this
--
Vera
 
andyg. said:
Sheri99 said:
Especially for PS 7 users. Tested on dull landscapes and backlit
people on the beach. No need for masking and so far results compare
favorably with the new CS feature.
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Not surprised at all I bet! lol Step 4 has me puzzled, I followed the steps with no problem but am wondering what stamp it means??

Thanks,
Ingrid
andyg. said:
andyg. said:
http://home.comcast.net/~silvermoonwoman/psaction/shadow_highlight_adjustment.zip

Have learned alot from this group and hope this action will be
useful to some of you. I haven't done many actions (maybe I should
call it beta), but have recorded some fairly complex activity and
tried to make it both flexible and tailored to each given image.
You just have to adjust to taste the opacity of two layers (doubled
screen for the Shadows adjustment and doubled multiply for
adjusting Highlights), plus the contrast in an adjustment layer.

Technical detail, this action selects feathered luminosity and
feathered inverse luminosity as input to the blended layers.

Enjoy,
Sheri
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Ingrid Suitor said:
Not surprised at all I bet! lol Step 4 has me puzzled, I followed
the steps with no problem but am wondering what stamp it means??

Thanks,
Ingrid
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Hi Ingrid,

Pressing th combination of keys Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E on an empty layer causes all currently visible layers to get combined onto that layer. But it leaves the building block layers in place. Adobe calls this "stamping" the layer. I think I learned it from the help file, but when I was making the action, I also noticed the action step also calls it stamping.

So, it is Photoshop's term to refer to that process. I don't think there's any other way of doing it besides pressing the key combo. I believe Merge Visible deletes the source layers.

In the next version of the Shadows-Highlights action, there probably won't be a stamp layer. I had thought one was needed for the Brightness-Contrast Adjustment layer to have a combined source to work on. But while that seems to be true for when you adjust Brightness-Contrast directly, it appears to unnecessary when done via an adjustment layer. I find that if you delete the merged (stamp) layer. Tthe Brightness - Contrast adjustment layer still works and Shadows and Highlights layers opacities are accessible as well.

Sheri
 
Hi Sheri (or anyone else who wants to help),

After looking at the results from your action I'd like to ask for your help. I don't have PS so I can't use this wonderful action (I do have PSP 8 but there's no luminosity selection in it as far as I can tell so I can't even try to recreate in it your action's workflow).

I'd really like to save this picture - it's from my son's first day at the pool. My wife took it and although the colors are nice, we came out totally dark and backlit. Care to give your action a go at it? Here's the original file:


Sheri99 said:
Especially for PS 7 users. Tested on dull landscapes and backlit
people on the beach. No need for masking and so far results compare
favorably with the new CS feature.

http://home.comcast.net/~silvermoonwoman/psaction/shadow_highlight_adjustment.zip

Have learned alot from this group and hope this action will be
useful to some of you. I haven't done many actions (maybe I should
call it beta), but have recorded some fairly complex activity and
tried to make it both flexible and tailored to each given image.
You just have to adjust to taste the opacity of two layers (doubled
screen for the Shadows adjustment and doubled multiply for
adjusting Highlights), plus the contrast in an adjustment layer.

Technical detail, this action selects feathered luminosity and
feathered inverse luminosity as input to the blended layers.

Enjoy,
Sheri
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Itamar said:
Hi Sheri (or anyone else who wants to help),

After looking at the results from your action I'd like to ask for
your help. I don't have PS so I can't use this wonderful action (I
do have PSP 8 but there's no luminosity selection in it as far as I
can tell so I can't even try to recreate in it your action's
workflow).

I'd really like to save this picture - it's from my son's first day
at the pool. My wife took it and although the colors are nice, we
came out totally dark and backlit. Care to give your action a go at
it? Here's the original file:

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Hi Itmar,

Sure I'll be glad to give it a go. Do you have any other online photos of yourself or the baby I can use as a tonal reference?

Regards,
Sheri
 
Thanks for the swift response. Sure, here're a couple more with better tonal info:




Sheri99 said:
Hi Itmar,

Sure I'll be glad to give it a go. Do you have any other online
photos of yourself or the baby I can use as a tonal reference?

Regards,
Sheri
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Itamar
 
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