tailieunhanh - ADOBE PHOTOSHOP FOR UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS- P3

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP FOR UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS- P3: In a matter of a few short years, the underwater digital camera went from a novelty item to the predominant method for taking underwater pictures. Never before has a technology advanced so rapidly. Thanks to digital, though, underwater photography has evolved into a shootto- edit process. | O Blooming Effect with Subject in Foreground Subject Selection. More times than not you ll find that your blooming effect is situated behind a diver part of a wreck or coral extension. Since you cannot use the Elliptical Marquee to select the affected area you ll have to use a new approach. The first part of your task is to protect the subject and any nearby objects from your editing attempts. Since most subjects will be much darker than the blooming you can use the Magic Wand to select the areas that you want to protect. If you find you can t select it all or select too much you can fine-tune your selection with the Polygonal Lasso using add or subtract - icons. Inverse your selection go to Select Feather and set the Feather Radius at 1-2 pixels. You will generally find too many tonal variables in the scene so the Blur filters will rarely work. Healing Brush. Go to the toolbox select the Healing Brush and be sure to set it to the Replace mode. Drag and drop data from just outside the blooming area to inside. Work your way back and forth until you have the area inside Left A more difficult blooming problem is when the effect is behind a subject as in this wreck from the Solomon Islands. Right Using the Magic Wand and the Polygonal Lasso tools the mast and dark foreground were selected away from the water and blooming effect. An inverse selection was used to choose the blooming effect and surrounding water. 150 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP FOR UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS Left The Clone and Healing Brush tools were then used to fill in the light density of the blooming effect with darker surrounding colors. When using this method don t worry about uneven editing as it will all be covered up using the next step in the process. Right The Filter Render Lens Flare filter was then selected and the pointer was placed in the middle of the blooming effect. The selection mask will keep the effect from spilling into the mast and darker foreground areas. the bloom filled with data. It doesn t