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<blockquote data-quote="Blacktop" data-source="post: 532078" data-attributes="member: 22693"><p>Since I'm on vacation and I don't fell like shooting today, I decided to process some shots that I missed the last few days. I came up on this tiny bird sitting on an electrical cable.</p><p></p><p>I was just going to do my normal PP, but since I have all this time, I started to play with it. Might be overkill and it probably is, but it gave me a chance to practice with layers in PS which I don't do enough of.</p><p>Here is the before and after and a brief explanation of how it was done.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]198230[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]198231[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>In PS I selected the magic wand tool and chose "color range" to select out the blue sky.</p><p>I inverted the selection, so that now the bird and the cable was selected. I chose to "copy to layer" so now I had a layer without the sky.</p><p></p><p>Then I chose a background sky from my hard drive and added it as a layer. </p><p></p><p>I took the layer with thee bird on a cable without the sky into Nik Tools and did some editing like pro contrast and Detail extractor, and saved it back to PS.</p><p>Then I took my new sky and also edited in NIK using the Glamour glow filter.</p><p></p><p>I put the two layers together , flattened the image and exported it back to LR where I did some basic stuff like pulling whites, shadows and playing around with a few sliders.</p><p>I wish I had the patience to take screen shots of all the steps, but I don't. Even if I was bored out of my mind.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blacktop, post: 532078, member: 22693"] Since I'm on vacation and I don't fell like shooting today, I decided to process some shots that I missed the last few days. I came up on this tiny bird sitting on an electrical cable. I was just going to do my normal PP, but since I have all this time, I started to play with it. Might be overkill and it probably is, but it gave me a chance to practice with layers in PS which I don't do enough of. Here is the before and after and a brief explanation of how it was done. [ATTACH type="full"]198230._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]198231._xfImport[/ATTACH] In PS I selected the magic wand tool and chose "color range" to select out the blue sky. I inverted the selection, so that now the bird and the cable was selected. I chose to "copy to layer" so now I had a layer without the sky. Then I chose a background sky from my hard drive and added it as a layer. I took the layer with thee bird on a cable without the sky into Nik Tools and did some editing like pro contrast and Detail extractor, and saved it back to PS. Then I took my new sky and also edited in NIK using the Glamour glow filter. I put the two layers together , flattened the image and exported it back to LR where I did some basic stuff like pulling whites, shadows and playing around with a few sliders. I wish I had the patience to take screen shots of all the steps, but I don't. Even if I was bored out of my mind.;) [/QUOTE]
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