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dmedhora
Apr 12, 2006
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Hi All,

this is a post of a question I’ve asked elsewhere too , so please forgive.

I have a jpeg of a bright picture taken from a film camera.

The picture was of a slightly dark foreground, and a beautiful snow mountain in the
background against a greyish white sky.. Unfortunately my over-exposing it has made
the mountain and sky as 1. Its a bit hard to distinguish them on the final print. It basically
doesn’t do justice to the magnificance of the mountain.

The mountain is visible but not as clear as I intend it to because the whole scene
is overexposed. Kindof like the sky and mountain has merged.

I want to know how I can change this somehow. So that I can make the mountain more
darker, visible, prominent and 3d life like without darkening the whole picture

Any tips would be great.
Thanks
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Tacit
Apr 12, 2006
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I want to know how I can change this somehow. So that I can make the mountain more
darker, visible, prominent and 3d life like without darkening the whole picture

Any tips would be great.

Select the mountain witht he selection tools, then darken it witht he Image->Adjust->Curves command.

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jls
Apr 13, 2006
On 12 Apr 2006 07:29:22 -0700, wrote:

Hi All,

this is a post of a question I’ve asked elsewhere too , so please forgive.

I have a jpeg of a bright picture taken from a film camera.
The picture was of a slightly dark foreground, and a beautiful snow mountain in the
background against a greyish white sky.. Unfortunately my over-exposing it has made
the mountain and sky as 1. Its a bit hard to distinguish them on the final print. It basically
doesn’t do justice to the magnificance of the mountain.

There’s actually an interesting article by Ron Bigelow for handling this called "Masking for Contrast Control". Link is at:

http://ronbigelow.com/articles/articles.htm

It appears in the current issue (#5) of Pbase magazine, available online: http://www.pbase.com/magazine

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