brighten foreground without abrupt edge?

I have a photo with people in foreground and sunset in background. The exposure of sunset is good, the people are too dark (see sample photo #0) . I want to select the people and brighten them.

After selecting the people (using magic wand multiple times), I found it necessary to feather 1 pixel (#4), otherwise, after brightening the people, the edges would be too abrupt. But even this is not ideal; the resulting photo still has some white or black edge at the people/sky boundary. Feathering more won’t solve the problem; on the contrary, it creates more obvious edges (#5, #6)

The best solution I found is to feather by 1 pixel and fix each of the problem areas by hand (#7 last photo). But this takes a lot of time. Is there a solution that involve less manual labor?

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/5490046_o37yZ

Using photoshop CS2.

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I have a photo with people in foreground and sunset in background. The exposure of sunset is good, the people are too dark (see sample photo #0) . I want to select the people and brighten them.

I have a photo with people in foreground and sunset in background. The exposure of sunset is good, the people are too dark (see sample photo #0) . I want to select the people and brighten them.

After selecting the people (using magic wand multiple times), I found it necessary to feather 1 pixel (#4), otherwise, after brightening the people, the edges would be too abrupt. But even this is not ideal; the resulting photo still has some white or black edge at the people/sky boundary. Feathering more won’t solve the problem; on the contrary, it creates more obvious edges (#5, #6)

The best solution I found is to feather by 1 pixel and fix each of the problem areas by hand (#7 last photo). But this takes a lot of time. Is there a solution that involve less manual labor?

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/5490046_o37yZ

Using photoshop CS2.

I have a photo with people in foreground and sunset in background. The exposure of sunset is good, the people are too dark (see sample photo #0) . I want to select the people and brighten them.

After selecting the people (using magic wand multiple times), I found it necessary to feather 1 pixel (#4), otherwise, after brightening the people, the edges would be too abrupt. But even this is not ideal; the resulting photo still has some white or black edge at the people/sky boundary. Feathering more won’t solve the problem; on the contrary, it creates more obvious edges (#5, #6)

The best solution I found is to feather by 1 pixel and fix each of the problem areas by hand (#7 last photo). But this takes a lot of time. Is there a solution that involve less manual labor?

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/5490046_o37yZ

Using photoshop CS2.

I have a photo with people in foreground and sunset in background. The exposure of sunset is good, the people are too dark (see sample photo #0) . I want to select the people and brighten them.

After selecting the people (using magic wand multiple times), I found it necessary to feather 1 pixel (#4), otherwise, after brightening the people, the edges would be too abrupt. But even this is not ideal; the resulting photo still has some white or black edge at the people/sky boundary. Feathering more won’t solve the problem; on the contrary, it creates more obvious edges (#5, #6)

The best solution I found is to feather by 1 pixel and fix each of the problem areas by hand (#7 last photo). But this takes a lot of time. Is there a solution that involve less manual labor?

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/5490046_o37yZ

Using photoshop CS2.

peter a écrit :

I have a photo with people in foreground and sunset in background. The exposure of sunset is good, the people are too dark (see sample photo #0) . I want to select the people and brighten them.

After selecting the people (using magic wand multiple times), I found it necessary to feather 1 pixel (#4), otherwise, after brightening the people, the edges would be too abrupt. But even this is not ideal; the resulting photo still has some white or black edge at the people/sky boundary. Feathering more won’t solve the problem; on the contrary, it creates more obvious edges (#5, #6)

The best solution I found is to feather by 1 pixel and fix each of the problem areas by hand (#7 last photo). But this takes a lot of time. Is there a solution that involve less manual labor?

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/5490046_o37yZ

Using photoshop CS2.

Hi,
Have you tried the shadows/highligth command ?

For example : http://dl.free.fr/pvUV0gxHD/335747122_0(2).jpg

Almen wrote:

peter a écrit :

I have a photo with people in foreground and sunset in background. The exposure of sunset is good, the people are too dark (see sample photo #0) . I want to select the people and brighten them.

After selecting the people (using magic wand multiple times), I found it necessary to feather 1 pixel (#4), otherwise, after brightening the people, the edges would be too abrupt. But even this is not ideal; the resulting photo still has some white or black edge at the people/sky boundary. Feathering more won’t solve the problem; on the contrary, it creates more obvious edges (#5, #6)

The best solution I found is to feather by 1 pixel and fix each of the problem areas by hand (#7 last photo). But this takes a lot of time. Is there a solution that involve less manual labor?

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/5490046_o37yZ

Using photoshop CS2.

Hi,
Have you tried the shadows/highligth command ?

Shadow/Hi-lite usually shadow/hi-lite the whole image not to the specific area. I believe it has few extra option like more/less to darker/brighter but still pretty limit comparing to advanced trick.

For example : http://dl.free.fr/pvUV0gxHD/335747122_0(2).jpg

I have a photo with people in foreground and sunset in background. The exposure of sunset is good, the people are too dark (see sample photo #0) . I want to select the people and brighten them.

After selecting the people (using magic wand multiple times), I found it

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/5490046_o37yZ

Using photoshop CS2.