Nothing but blue skies

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jbach55
Jan 23, 2004
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I have an image where I tried to "up" the blue, by using a darker shade of blue, then painting it on at a certain opacity. The image looked fine on my screen, but when I had it printed, there were definite brush marks on it; you could see someone (me) painted it darker. They stuck out like a sore thumb.

When I went back to my computer, I still couldn’t see the marks. I had to look really hard and use the hardcopy print to locate them. Do you know a way to alter the image temporarily, to where it would make any paint marks really stand out? Then I could correct them while I see them, then put the image back to the correct color/density/contrast, etc. I’ve already tried to up the contrast, but that didn’t work. I’m sure there’s a way to make brush strokes to really show up.

Thanks,

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Jonathan_Balza
Jan 23, 2004
In a case like this, seeing the image (or even just a portion of it) would help dramatically.

< obvious>
Did you paint the strokes on a separate layer?
< /obvious>
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JasonSmith
Jan 23, 2004
try an new levels adjustment layer, then slide the top left slider to the right until your paint strokes show up.
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Rene_Walling
Jan 23, 2004
And maybe try an adjustment layer to correct the blue, rather than trying to paint the right shade in.
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JasonSmith
Jan 23, 2004
Also, depending on how/where it is printed, you may want to view with the appropriate profile installed.

View>Proof Setup>????
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Philo_Calhoun
Jan 23, 2004
You can also duplicate the background layer and then apply image: red channel: darken to uppermost layer. Then set uppermost layer to "luminosity".
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Loren_Smith
Jan 25, 2004
Jeff,

Just an idea, are you viewing the image in PS at 100 percent? Not all details are visable at lower magnifications.

Loren
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jbach55
Jan 27, 2004
Thanks for the info. Going up to 100% did help. This file is huge, about 60mb, so 100% is like … huge. But it did help to spot the brush marks.

Thanks,

jeff
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jbach55
Jan 27, 2004
Thanks for the info. I guess painting the strokes on another layer might have helped. What I did, was darken the bland light blue sky with a big brush with blue. It looked nice on screen. But when it got printed, it showed brush marks like crazy.

Next time, I see where I should do it on a different layer.

Thanks,

jeff

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