A screenshot tutorial of this image http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8102142/ "Half Dome Reflection".
Some things I do aren't represented in this screen shot as the image didn't require those steps.
I wont go into the detail of what's going on in this screen capture, unless specifically asked. It's a LOT to describe, so it's probably easier just letting people ping questions and answering them specifically. A very light description of what the layers are doing is bellow (worked in reverse order):
Threshold, Layer 2: Used to define the black, white, and 50% grey point in the image
Curves 1: Used to create curves to match those black, white and 50% grey points for highlight, shadow, and color correction of the image
Lab Color Copy: Some fancy trickery intermediary step/layer used to sharpen the final image (AFTER resizing)
Sharpness: An overlay of the combined layers of Lab Color and Lab Color Copy that provides the final sharpness
Lab Color: Moved the HDR blended image to another Photoshop document and converted to lab color along with some creative tweaking there to non-destructively increase the color saturation levels. The image is then copy and pasted into the original Photoshop document for further touchups and editing
Dust: smart content aware fills used to fix any dust or undesirable things from the image
Water/Trees: the higher exposed layer and hand brushed mask used to define the water and a side bush
Sky: the lower exposed layer with properly exposed sky and trees
Some things I do aren't represented in this screen shot as the image didn't require those steps.
I wont go into the detail of what's going on in this screen capture, unless specifically asked. It's a LOT to describe, so it's probably easier just letting people ping questions and answering them specifically. A very light description of what the layers are doing is bellow (worked in reverse order):
Threshold, Layer 2: Used to define the black, white, and 50% grey point in the image
Curves 1: Used to create curves to match those black, white and 50% grey points for highlight, shadow, and color correction of the image
Lab Color Copy: Some fancy trickery intermediary step/layer used to sharpen the final image (AFTER resizing)
Sharpness: An overlay of the combined layers of Lab Color and Lab Color Copy that provides the final sharpness
Lab Color: Moved the HDR blended image to another Photoshop document and converted to lab color along with some creative tweaking there to non-destructively increase the color saturation levels. The image is then copy and pasted into the original Photoshop document for further touchups and editing
Dust: smart content aware fills used to fix any dust or undesirable things from the image
Water/Trees: the higher exposed layer and hand brushed mask used to define the water and a side bush
Sky: the lower exposed layer with properly exposed sky and trees
Category Photography / Tutorials
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Size 1280 x 800px
File Size 215.1 kB
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