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01/20/2004 11:50:52 PM · #26 |
I haven't found a way to do this in Photoshop Elements 2. In Photoshop, the Ctrl-Alt-Tilde selects the highlights of the image; pure white is completely selected, gray is partly selected, pure black is not selected. Creating a new layer from this selection (Ctrl-J in Photoshop, the same as "Layer->New->Layer via copy" in Elements) makes a layer containing the highlights from the image but transparent in the shadows. Inverting the selection first does just the opposite, making a layer containing the shadows.
But Elements doesn't have a command to select the highlights that I've found. In Photoshop, the command works by treating the image as a mask and converting it to a selection. But Elements doesn't support masks... |
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05/02/2004 08:05:21 PM · #27 |
Thanks Tim for a great Tutorial. Clear and to the point.. easy to follow. I improved the highlights in the communion dress in the photos I did for my friend. It was the "touch" I needed to give it depth and detail :)
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05/02/2004 08:54:00 PM · #28 |
FOr the lazier ones out there. The action (plus another method and a light blending-2 image blender) is available from Bill on Outdoor Eyes
All are excellent!!
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06/04/2004 02:51:37 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by dr rick:
I haven't found a way to do this in Photoshop Elements 2. In Photoshop, the Ctrl-Alt-Tilde selects the highlights of the image; pure white is completely selected, gray is partly selected, pure black is not selected. Creating a new layer from this selection (Ctrl-J in Photoshop, the same as "Layer->New->Layer via copy" in Elements) makes a layer containing the highlights from the image but transparent in the shadows. Inverting the selection first does just the opposite, making a layer containing the shadows.
But Elements doesn't have a command to select the highlights that I've found. In Photoshop, the command works by treating the image as a mask and converting it to a selection. But Elements doesn't support masks... |
You can select highlights in elements with the "magic wand" selection tool, just set it to about 90 something %, I set it to 99% in the image I tried it on. And then you can feather the selection if you like but that's not always necessary and i wouldn't feather by much maybe just a few pixels.
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06/04/2004 06:53:30 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by ionyou:
Originally posted by dr rick:
I haven't found a way to do this in Photoshop Elements 2. In Photoshop, the Ctrl-Alt-Tilde selects the highlights of the image; pure white is completely selected, gray is partly selected, pure black is not selected. Creating a new layer from this selection (Ctrl-J in Photoshop, the same as "Layer->New->Layer via copy" in Elements) makes a layer containing the highlights from the image but transparent in the shadows. Inverting the selection first does just the opposite, making a layer containing the shadows.
But Elements doesn't have a command to select the highlights that I've found. In Photoshop, the command works by treating the image as a mask and converting it to a selection. But Elements doesn't support masks... |
You can select highlights in elements with the "magic wand" selection tool, just set it to about 90 something %, I set it to 99% in the image I tried it on. And then you can feather the selection if you like but that's not always necessary and i wouldn't feather by much maybe just a few pixels. |
Then still the problem remains that in Elements you can't work with Layers, so you would have to use another method instead of Screening and Multiplying the shadows and highlights.
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04/13/2005 05:11:05 PM · #31 |
Its obvious no ones post in this thread in a while probably started a new one someplace but i have a cs and ever time i practice this tecnique i have to switch back to 7 because i cant control alt ~ is there a way to do this in CS thanks
Leon
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