On 6/3/2013 8:35 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> Dan Margulis has an interesting technique for getting rid of halos in his
> book on Modern Photoshop Color Workflow which I am still working my way
> through. For the technique: "Sample the color of the sky outside of the
> halo. Set the paintbrush to the width of the halo, choose Mode - Darker
> Color, opacity 60% and paint the halo away." It works better than anything
> else I've tried!
That's my fallback technique, detail painting. However, I always do it to the
mask on a layer, rather than direct. That
way, slips, including those not noticed until later, are easy to correct.
For many subjects, an overall approach at least as least equally effective, and
MUCH quicker and easier. Mike's recent
TOPE image is an example. The ShadowHighlight tool and LCE left lots of halos.
The tower, above and below, and the
roadway are most obvious, but there's also halo around all the cables, unevenly
brightening the sky between them
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Marnie/Bunker_Hill_Bridge.htm>.
I took a copy layer of the Background layer, used Select=>Color to select just
the sky, and applied it as a mask. Moving
that layer above the LCE layer wipes out the halos in one swoop. Can you
imagine painting those out???
Reversing the mask on a sharpening layer controls sharpening effects, too.
I use this same general approach to create a sky mask almost always. Then the
painting as above is done to the mask.
Much more subtle results along difficult borders of leaves, etc. are fairly
easy this way. Often, only part of the
haloed edges need painting.
Once I have that masked layer, I can also adjust sky brightness, contrast, etc.
separately. Here, I didn't, but I often do.
Masked Halo Moose
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