Blown highlights - please help

[philbach]

Originally Posted by Britsdad

Sorry to highjack this thread a little, but why is it I can't Ctrl + Alt + ~ to select the luminosity?
John

Well I use a Mac. Why not try to Control + click the RGB icon in the channels palette and see if that works.

[Gary Richardson]

Try Ctrl + Alt + Shift + ~ (depends on how your preferences are set up).

[creeduk]

Originally Posted by Britsdad

That's got it, cheers, you can be my hero for today (lol)
John

No Problem John and hey nice to be somebody's hero for a day

[Britsdad]

A comedian as well, you are my hero.

John

[pepperspray]

Crikey! You're all genius!

I've not had time to work on it yet - I won free tickets to a show in Auckland, and decided to stay with friends for a day or two - but will be attempting all your suggestions this evening.


Thank you so much!



Petra

[pepperspray]

Okay, here's something I've worked fairly hard on. I'm fairly happy with the results and hope it prints well. I combined your suggestions, and copied layers and changed their blending modes, selected the luminosisty in Lab mode and tinkered with that, and then painted in the rest.

What do you guys think: will it pass the print test?



Cheers!
Petra

[Gary Richardson]

Looks good. Sould print fine.

I usually make a small print first to see how it looks, before printing out a final sized picture.

That way you can ensure there's no colour space issues you need to address, and you won't waste paper/ink. (I don't do enough printing to justify expense on printer/screen calibration).

[pepperspray]

Thanks!

I will do a small test print on my inkjet, and if it comes out ok, I'll then take it into the photographic store to print as a 'proper' photo for her mother.



I'm reading various help threads here, and the repairs you all do in just a few minutes are fantastic. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.



Petra

[Britsdad]

Looks good to me, as Gary said, it should print well... maybe a little light for my taste, but that's just me.....John

[Duv]

Although CS is limited as to how much you can correct raw images, since you shot in Raw mode, there is usually more info than you realize in the highlights. I would stay in Raw mode as long as possible for my corrections before converting to tiff, jpeg, whatever.

Dave

[pepperspray]

Thanks, guys.


Duv: I always keep the original RAW file, and any that have been altered in any way whatsoever are saved as copies. I do this so I can return to the original file as my skill level improves. It sure is a steep learning curve, though!

[cspringer]

Selective Color Adjustment layer/WHITE/absolute...add some black and add color to taste. Invert the mask to black and paint out the highlights.

[JuliPhotography]

Originally Posted by philbach

Well I use a Mac. Why not try to Control + click the RGB icon in the channels palette and see if that works.

I am also having the same problem, I can't select the highlights when doing this. I also tried what Gary suggested and came up short. I have a G5, so I'm not sure why this isn't working for me...

[philbach]

Well I have an old Mac and am running 10.39. To select the luminosity of a layer One option is to click the RGB Icon in the layers palette. Using Keyboard Commands. Either Command + Option + Tilde works for me or Command + Option + Shift + Tilde works. A long time ago I had trouble with the keyboard commands and found that I had changed some of the layer Keyboard Command Options like Flatten Image would equal Command + Shift + E. That command is usually flatten all visible layers. At any rate when I returned to default keyboard commands, I was able to so make luminosity selections.

[manta1900]

My filters:
Brightness/Contrast
Sharpening
White Balance