I have taken a beach and sea shot with palm trees and greenery in the foreground which when printed are very dark. What is the method to lighten this specific area using elements 10 ?
View 2 Repliesi would like to lighten the front portion of a seashell. how would i do this/ what selection tool etc. Attached is a photo of a seashell floating on some clouds.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI was working with gradients and all was fine, then once more I attempted to use foreground to transparent it would not work.
I deleted the preference file, restarted PSE, restarted my machine - still doesn't work although foreground to background works.
in working with layers and masks, I am having difficulty in establishing a foreground layer. I have all the pictures in my project been and establish a background, but do not know how to establish a layer as foreground.
View 2 Replies View RelatedOne exposure is right for foreground but bleaches out the sky.The other is too dark for the foreground but leaves the sky nicely blue with clouds.How do I merge the light foreground with the darker sky ? All my attempts so far end with the same bleached sky.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am not able to find the command select foreground (in italian language is "isola primo pano"). This command in the version 11 was the last command of the image column.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an image that requires the foreground to be lighter than the sky in the background that I want to enhance. What is the best way to accomplish this in Elements 11?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe issue I run into is when I make a photo black and white and bring out a single color by selecting the areas of color with the magic selector. Once I have the colored area selected I either invert and turn the rest of the image black and white, or I will create a new duplicate layer and delete out the content in one layer and eventually merge the color and black and white layers to make my final image.
My problem is I always get a white gap between the colors and black and white images, or layers. I have tried to use the refine edge menu option, but this never solves the problem as the feather option, and move edge option do not cover the gap, they just move it.
I have resorted to using the healing brush to hide the line or merge the colored and black and white layers together. The issue with this is some times it is in a highly visible spot and the healing brush does not always make a great look. In other words you can tell that I merged two colors or images together.
I have also have this issue when I use the selection tool on images I blur certain portions of. It seems to happen any time I am using the selection toold and I assume there is a standard way of avoiding this.
I am using elements 11.
How to Lighten areas?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a collague of pictures I want to lighten up. No matter if I use the marque tool or ctrl A, it just takes this one picture to lighten.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI took a portrait type of picture with a flash. The people are ok, the background is to dark. How can I lighten the background.
In the past when I took pictures for our awards, I used the blur method because I didn't lie the busy background. The background style on these pictures are ok. I just have a picture that I want to lighten the background.
I would like to lighten, brighten and color up this pic, since it's rather dull now. How can I do this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have about 100 images similar to the example below where the background is a neutral grey, darker at the edges then becoming lighter as it reaches the image subject. I'm looking for a way to lighten the grey background without have to mask the item in the center.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWith PS CS, I have noticed in Lab color space the lighten and darken blending modes for layers are disable. Also, if an RGB picture uses them, they are converted to normal blending mode upon conversion to Lab. Any idea why this limitation? And any way to circumvent it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a photo but I want to lighten it considerably to use it as a background on a business card. I am using Photoshop CS and how do I do this?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI haven't used PDF Underlays very much as we're always given CAD backgrounds. In this case, I used them to quickly put in since we won't get CAD files. However, they are scanned PDF's so they are essentially raster images. They have jagged lines, etc.
Is there a way to just lighten these when plotting so I can still use them as my background? or should I just bite the bullet and trace them to get actual ACAD lines to be able to control in plotting?
lighten the faces on a photo when they are shadowed. Attaching photo.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen I am in the develop mode, and I want to darken, or lighten the background, or the fore ground, or anything in the picture. Do I use the Radial Filter, or the adjustment Brush? How to use both of these tools?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a seascape photo with an island in the middle of the water. think of a black triangle surrounded by sparkly waves. I want to isolate the exact shape of the island so ONLY the island can be lightened a bit. Is there a nice video tutorial showing what that process is? tried some things in photoshop like the lasso tool but I could not get the island shape traced exactly enough. something similar in Photo paint?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI need to know the best way to lighten part of a picture without it being two-toned. An example of this is when I took a picture of someone inside a house.
The orange dress is vivid, and the white wall and door came out good also. The problem is that the lighting wasn't good enough to bring out the true skin tone of the person. So much so that the person's face could hardly be seen, and her neck and hands came out the same as her face also.
I tried to lighten her face by using the Ellipse in Tools>Adjustment>Brightness/Contrast making sure not to go outside the perimeter of the face. I then zoomed to 1600X and manually changed the rest of it a few pixels at a time by switching to the Rectangle in Tools . The result after more than an hour later was something that looked akin to pasting an egg in place of her face on the picture. It was grainy and looked ridiculous.
I don't want to lighten the whole picture because it ruins the true color of the dress, and not as important, the door and walls don't look as sharp and vivid either.
P.S. I would also like to know how to do the reverse; darken a specific area without the two-toned look.
I'm just wondering if there is a way to make something in the foreground so that you can see the background whatever it may be.
How I tried to do this was created a file with a transparent background and then added a new layer with 30% opacity and then typed the text I wanted you to be able to see through, but when I save it as a png it just makes the background white and as a gif it makes the entire image transparent so the text doesn't show up at all.
Somehow or other, my PS (v7.0, Win) has got itself confused when it comes to sampling a colour. Using the eye-dropper, one click samples the colour to the background swatch while Alt+ click samples the colour to the foreground - the reverse of the norm. This is not such a problem in itself, but when I'm using the sampler as part of a painting tool it becomes a hassle. I hit Alt and sample, but it goes to the background swatch: I have to keep hitting X to swap the colours over so I can paint in the new colour.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow I can get a gradient something like the attached e.g. which gradient picker (I don't think it is foreground to background) and which gradient (I don't think it is linear).
View 9 Replies View RelatedPhotoshop CS2- whenever i want to change the color of a brush, pencil etc. photoshop will change the backgroundcolor. whenever i change color i have to swith backgrounf and foreground color again.... this is so annoying that i've stopped drawing with the pencil and draw with the erasor instead...
how can i make the colors react normally again?
and another color-realted problem: when i create a text the picture turns red and the text will be shown in a totally weird color. what's going wrong there? how can i make the text tool work normally again?
When I open a new file and set up some stuff and what-not, I go to set up my background and foreground colors and whenever I pick a darker color like 'Maroon' It goes to black. A middle color like baby blue goes to gray and a light color like lime green goes to white.
View 2 Replies View Relatedhow to make the foreground color transparent for the life of me. In illustrator it is as simple as clicking a premade swatch that is transparent (other than that I dont know how to set it there either.) I mainly want it because I am trying to use the pen tool but a color keeps filling in between the lines.
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy friend sent me this pic, and I tried to edit it. However, when I filled the pic using foreground color, it was always grey (I chose yellow). I noticed that the foreground was set to grey no matter how i changed it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an image of a website form, and a border that goes around it (the <fieldset> tag). Behind this border exists a samurai's head and some nice looking flowers, which if he knew about them, I am relatively sure the samurai would be pissed.
Anyway, I want to be able to erase the border from the top of the samurai's head so that it will ultimately look like the border's lines run behind the head, and not over the top. I am aware that one way to do this would involve rendering the samurai object separate from the image, but that would be a lot of work, and I am looking for an easier / better solution.
Here is my problem. My foreground to background gradient too is broken it seems. It starts with black, then fades into a gold or bronze color and then to white... I'm attaching a screenshot so you can see what I mean.
I'd like to reset whatever I did so that it's the normal gradient, not that gold color in there
I tried even uninstalling photoshop, deleting the settings file, resetting everything... after I re-install photoshop, it's the same thing!
Watch the following animation to see that a new shape created by first drawing a path then hitting the [Shape] button is not creating a shape of the current Foreground color, but rather apparently of the color of the shape layer below it. This seems odd to me:
I don't think it's document-specific, but just to leave nothing to chance, if you want to try to reproduce it, you can download a copy of the file: [URL] ......