Moose,
Welcome back, and thanks for showing what can be done. I saved your image
for further examination.
Since I use Elements 6.0 (as I told Chuck, I'm a cheapskate), I don't have
all of your tools, and none of your talent, at my disposal. I will do what
I can do, but don't expect me to equal your results.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Another Butterfly
> On 8/2/2010 12:56 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Thanks, Chuck. I have seldom used layers. I printed out your response
>> and will try to follow your instructions as a learning tool.
>
> I'd like to offer some alternatives.
>
> First, although Chuck will probably never remember, you and others might -
> to switch a layer mask to black, you may save
> some clicks with Ctrl-I, inverting it from white to black.
>
> While the painting in blur method works fairly well for some subjects, I
> find it slow/tedious and problematic for
> subjects with complex edges.
>
> I took a three layer approach:
>
> One layer with a mask blacking out all but the butterfly. I applied LCE,
> Curves and sharpening to it. That brightened it
> up and clarified detail.
>
> One layer for only the flower. Although there are some blown red
> highlights, Highlight, LCE and Curves brought out the
> texture.
>
> One layer for blur, with everything but the flower and butterfly selected
> and Refine Edge used to slightly enlarge the
> deselected area and feather the edge. That keeps the blur from putting
> blurred bits of them into the blurred background
> area. I think I used about the same amount of Gaussian Blur as Chuck
> suggested.
>
> Selection mostly done with the Quick Selection Tool, with a little hand
> painting around the antennae.
>
> Overdone?
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Nichols/Gulf_Fritillary_on_Orange_Cosmos.htm>
>
> Maybe so, maybe not, but working with layers, it's easy to adjust the
> amount of effect on each element to individual taste.
>
> Moose
>
>> From: "Chuck Norcutt"<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> I hadn't noticed the busy bokeh at first. I added a layer, then gave it
>>> a guassian blur of 2.8 pixels, added a mask, painted over all with black
>>> paint using the paint bucket, switched back to white paint and a brush
>>> with about 70% opacity and painted over the bad bokeh and most of the
>>> other background areas which fixed up the poor bokeh.
>
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