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07/03/2006 03:12:10 PM · #1 |
| The other day I saw someone use a tool in CS2 where he drew a line down (vertically) the sky and it really enhanced it pretty nicely. Does anyone know what tool that was? |
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07/03/2006 03:15:29 PM · #2 |
| the gradient tool may be what you are looking for |
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07/03/2006 03:26:02 PM · #3 |
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07/03/2006 03:27:09 PM · #4 |
Probably the gradient tool. The way to do this is to click the top color pallet and use the eye dropper to select the darkest blue in the sky (roughly), then double click on the box to open the full pallet, where you move down a bit from the sky selection to get a darker hue, click okay, and then in a new layer use the gradient tool on the sky. Be sure the gradient is set to go from the color of your choice to transparent. Once the layer is there, adjust the opacity for a natural look. It doesn't take much, often 12% or even lower.
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07/03/2006 03:57:41 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
As far as sky blues goes, when you're applying a gradient to the sky do it on an empty layer set to "multiply", pick a blue darker than the one you want, and then use image/adjustments/hue+saturation and move the master hue slider back and forth to get the blue the color you want. Do this IN the gradient layer, not as an adjustment layer. Then just fade the layer opacity until the actual amount of gradient darkening looks right to you. |
This was just posted in another thread, The Amazing Landscape Thread, so I thought I'd share, as it expands upon my earlier post.
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07/03/2006 04:01:54 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
Probably the gradient tool. The way to do this is to click the top color pallet and use the eye dropper to select the darkest blue in the sky (roughly), then double click on the box to open the full pallet, where you move down a bit from the sky selection to get a darker hue, click okay, and then in a new layer use the gradient tool on the sky. Be sure the gradient is set to go from the color of your choice to transparent. Once the layer is there, adjust the opacity for a natural look. It doesn't take much, often 12% or even lower. |
Let me add to that that it's best to do this on a new, EMPTY layer, so the only thing on it is the gradient. Then you can adjust hue/sat to fine tune the blue on that layer, you can change layer modes to vary the effect of the gradient, and you can fade the gradient layer in the end as described above.
If you do it on a DUPLICATE layer, you can't alter the layer mode, nor can you mess with the hue/sat, without seriously affecting other parts of the image.
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07/03/2006 04:36:04 PM · #7 |
What Bear is describing is exactly what I did with this image. It also gave me the opportunity to delete areas I didn't want the gradient to affect (the couple). The sky did have some color data, but wasn't as nearly as pronounced as it is here.
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07/03/2006 04:53:22 PM · #8 |
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07/03/2006 07:12:15 PM · #9 |
Applying a blue gradient to a complex sky
No Gradient:  ... Gradient: 
Here is another color sky gradient technique you may want to try when the sky is complicated.
It is EASY to apply, better maintains cloud detail without turning them excessively blue and does not bleed over into complex background detail like branches and leaves. It is straitforward and does not require any erasures or hand adjustments to the gradient or the gradient mask.
The technique works with any image with blue skies. I picked this image for an example because of the complexity of the sky detail. It has sinuos clouds and it has branches with leaves that jut up into the sky. The idea is to use a blue gradient to darken the blue in the sky but maintain it's natural look without any blue color bleeding into unwanted places like the cactus, clouds and palo verde trees.
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1-Choose "Select->Color Range" and pick "Blues" (or "Cyans") from popup list
2-Choose "Layer->New->Layer..." and accept defaults for a transparent layer
3-With new layer highlighted choose "Layer->Layer Mask->Reveal Selection" or just click the new mask icon
4-Use Color Picker to choose desired shade of blue
5-Select Gradient tool and drag downward from top to below the lowest blue in sky
You can apply all the other gradient things you'd normally do like mode changes, fading, duplication or layer opacity changes. But you will find this application can be more subtle than others even at 100%.
In step 1 you could alternatively use the shift key with the eyedropper tool to make a sky selection.
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