vidisorin Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 I need some feedback on how to reduce the edges after working with different selections in PS....feather has no effect...because I think the annoying contour is some purple fringing brought into the image by adjusting the levels in a selection at its edges.... Hope I made myself clear... Thank you for your time and constructive comments... Sorin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 Under Selection there are options to expand or reduce the selection by any number of pixels you type in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikep Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 select: feather- pick a low number for minimal (1 or 2) It even reads percents (.2) etc. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrisers Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 If you have created a mask, option click (Mac) (PC is alt clickI think) on the mask itself. Then do a gaussian blur on the mask with whatever radius you want to feather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidisorin Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 Thank you very much for your comments. In order to exemplify my request I'll post some links... <a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/5679720" >photo 1</a> <a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/5679726" >photo 2</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugh_croft Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 I would use the Burn tool and maybe Blur as well set to darken. I'd zoom in a long way and go round those edges almost pixel by pixel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugh_croft Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 And/...you might find this masking action useful to isolate those edges: http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/TLRProfessionalMaskToolkit.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_fisher4 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 It kind of works in the first one. Not the second. What type of images are you working with? JPEG or TIFF? What bit depth? Working with 16 bit TIFF images will allow you to edit with as little degradation to the image as possible. You've got a lot of what looks like JPEG artifacting, especially in the second image. This can result from working on a JPEG and compressing it too much or editing and resaving it several times. You've also got what looks like sharpening halos. What is your sharpening method? Have you tried High Pass Sharpening or sharpening via the Lightness Channel in LAB mode. Both of these will sharpen an image nicely but without the halos and fringing that can result from simply using Unsharp Mask. When in your workflow are you sharpening your images? It should usually be the last thing you do before saving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidisorin Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 Thank you very much for your answers. I think I've done a good job with the second one (wich is in my portofolio)....looks much better...not perfect though... Best regards. Sorin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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