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Using ps7.01 (and I think this happens in 6).
From an old adobe tutorial that I saved from the bit bucket, and saved at:
<http://aikodude.tripod.com/PSRemoveShadows/main.html>
Step 3 says:
Step 3: Bring the original color image window to the top by clicking in it, then choose Select > Load Selection, and use the grayscale copy as your selection. Set the background channel to Black, check the Invert box, and click OK. After loading the selection, you should see a dotted line around the shadow areas.
There isn’t any black channel in the grayscale image, just gray.
Now I know that this tut. is real old. I’m guessing it came out around PS version 5 or 5.5. Can anyone tell me if this feature/option – the black channel in a grayscale image – has gone away? This problem has been side-discussed a couple of times in various threads by some of us regulars and other users, but we haven’t been able to come up with a solution. Loading the gray channel, the only one available, isn’t bad – sometimes, but no where near as good as the effect the old technique provided.
’tis a shame because this is a killer technique for brightening up dark images.
I was hoping Chris or Mark or ANYone can help me out here. If the black channel ISN’T available any longer, can you see another way to achive the same effect? If it is available, maybe the way to get at it has changed? Can you provide some direction please?
mucho gracias por adelantado,
thanks in advance,
dave
From an old adobe tutorial that I saved from the bit bucket, and saved at:
<http://aikodude.tripod.com/PSRemoveShadows/main.html>
Step 3 says:
Step 3: Bring the original color image window to the top by clicking in it, then choose Select > Load Selection, and use the grayscale copy as your selection. Set the background channel to Black, check the Invert box, and click OK. After loading the selection, you should see a dotted line around the shadow areas.
There isn’t any black channel in the grayscale image, just gray.
Now I know that this tut. is real old. I’m guessing it came out around PS version 5 or 5.5. Can anyone tell me if this feature/option – the black channel in a grayscale image – has gone away? This problem has been side-discussed a couple of times in various threads by some of us regulars and other users, but we haven’t been able to come up with a solution. Loading the gray channel, the only one available, isn’t bad – sometimes, but no where near as good as the effect the old technique provided.
’tis a shame because this is a killer technique for brightening up dark images.
I was hoping Chris or Mark or ANYone can help me out here. If the black channel ISN’T available any longer, can you see another way to achive the same effect? If it is available, maybe the way to get at it has changed? Can you provide some direction please?
mucho gracias por adelantado,
thanks in advance,
dave
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