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Spiff's top secret Negative layer technique
Spiff's top secret Negative layer technique
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Collection: PaintShop Pro stuff
Date: Jul 7, 2010
Date Uploaded: Jul 7, 2010

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 This is a technique that I originally found as a suggestion for a fake HDR look. I think it does poorly for that, but have found that in lesser amounts, it is a good and easy way of pulling in details from overly bright highlights and dark shadows. I will often use it on shots taken in midday sun.

This illustrates Corel PaintShop Pro, but Photoshop should perform the same way. I have saved this as a PaintShop Pro script, which can be downloaded from here. (Right click and save PSPSCRIPT file)

-Duplicate layer
-Desaturate upper layer
-Negative image upper layer
-Apply light gaussian blur to upper layer (I use a value of 4)
-Select a blend mode of "overlay"
-Adjust opacity of upper layer to preference. (I find an opacity of somewhere between 15-30% works for most images.)
-Flatten

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 02/11/2011 10:41:08 PM
Interesting - I'll have to try this, too. Another way to get detail in too bright photos is to duplicate the layer and use "multiply" as the blend mode (in Photoshop) then scaling back the intensity of the duplicate layer to taste.
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 02/11/2011 09:56:06 PM
Hmmmm. Interesting. I'll have to try this.
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