Photoshop Elements :: How To Lighten Front Portion Of Seashell
Mar 7, 2013
i 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.
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 ?
I recently purchased PSE 12 and have not been able to find any tutorials on it. how to impose a portion of one picture in to another picture. I am also trying to create a collage in JPeg and can not figure this out either. I have tried using the templates provided but I don't necessarily want or need all the frames provided, etc.
I am using Elements 10 for the first time and am a true beginner at this. I am trying to add multiple effect onto the beginning of a video. Do I have to render the whole video every time I want to watch what I added to the video? The video is 45 minutes long and I am only working with the first 5 minutes of the video. I am guessing if I cut and remove the 40 other minutes rendering with not take so long but, how do I save the other 40 minutes so I can re-attach it when I am ready to work on it?
I cannot get this program to install. I keep getting a message that the file archive portion of the file is missing, I am not going to spend all day screwing around in a forum chasing my tail. Either have a human being contact me or cancel my order immediately and credit the purchase!
I am trying to sharpen a small portion of an image and folling the instructions given in the help files, I cannot locate the "Sharpen Tool" in the tool menu. How I can find this asset in Elements 10?
how to scan my photos directly into my photoshop elements9 for mac. I see the drop down for camera and videos, but there isn't a category for scanners.
I'm using Elements 9.03 with Windows XP. When I download videos from my Sony HandyCam, the video portion of the file does not play back, only audio. Is there a setting I can adjust or do I need to use a more recent version of Windows?
I 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 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.
With 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?
I 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?
When 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?
I 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?
I 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 trying to print a flyer that has art on the front and back. I copied the images to Microsoft Word on page one and two. I then printed page one and then turned the page over and printed page two on the back. Though I have the same settings for page one and two, it's not aligning.
Is there another way to do this so I can get perfect alignment for the front and back of the page. Can I do this with Photoshop or should I use a table in Microsoft Word or should I use another program altogether like Adobe Pagemaker or Quarkexpress.
Does anyone know how to blur a portion of an image in gradient-like fashion to give the impression of an unfocussed lens? Can you do it with a transparent layer mask?
I need to move a portion of a jpeg image (a logo) a little bit to one side, then I will fill in the empty space. Do I need to save it as a .psd first? And which tool do I use? I was trying to use one tool, not sure which one, and it told me the layer was locked. I couldn't figure out how to unlock the layer.
Shot a story on studio background, need to reach 11x14 crop without cutting into top or bottom of frame. Want to extend sides of picture which are somewhat consistent in light and color..