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Toonie
Getting Comfy
Registered: June 2006
Location: Wherever I Lay My Hat
Posts: 240
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Sat September 9, 2006 8:41pm
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Lovely image Angela but it needs a bit more space on the right hand side for the horse to look into. In ps go to Image>canvas size & add to the right, take a colour sample from the dark background & fill the new canvas
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Angela
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Registered: August 2006
Location: Wimbledon
Posts: 6,435
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Sat September 9, 2006 9:39pm
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Thank you very much Toonie!  I'm still finding my way round this manipulation lark so I do appreciate the comments!
Does that look better?
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Dave
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Registered: July 2005
Posts: 16,481
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Sun September 10, 2006 11:04am
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One thing worth trying is to add some noise/grain to the black area, to make it feel a more natural flow from horse to background . Currently the black is too clinical.
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Toonie
Getting Comfy
Registered: June 2006
Location: Wherever I Lay My Hat
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Sun September 10, 2006 6:54pm
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Yes Angela, much better. you could also try extending the canvas by about 50 > 60% to the right plus about 10% on the top, It gives you another different image to play about with. The Possibilities are endless.There are some lovely tones in the image.
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Angela
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Tue September 19, 2006 11:48am
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Dave, I did try adding some noise to the background but it just looked awful! I think perhaps I added to much but no matter what I did I just couldn't seem to get it right. Any tips please?
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Dave
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Tue September 19, 2006 1:35pm
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Me & my big mouth  . Off to have aplay & see if what I preach can be achieved 
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Dave
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Tue September 19, 2006 2:02pm
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OK, even after adding noise it still wasn't working, so abandoned that idea. What I realised is the horse shot is quite pale versus the deep black. So added an S curve & basically clicked a tiny way on the line from bottom left ( point 20 actually) & then dragged it to the bottom. This has the effect of darkening all the shadow detail, so it's simalar to background. I then also used the "blur" tool set at 50% & soft brush of 15 pixels & wend around outline of horse to slightly soften it & make it seem more natural. End result is here (pardon image quality, I saved at 30% by mistake) :-
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Dave
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Tue September 19, 2006 2:05pm
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Once I started I thought I would play a bit futher. Tried to add false shodwing to edge of horse outline by :-
- Duplicating layer
- Adding S curve dragging point 100 downwards until I got the shadows I was after
- The use layer mask to bring back the parts of the horse I could imagine being lit.
- Slight USM & voila :-
Not perfect , but hopefully a few pointers for future processing 
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Angela
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Tue September 19, 2006 2:38pm
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Wow! thanks Dave.....I'm not sure I understand s-curves yet but that gives me another goal!!
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