How to Brighten a Flower leaving background alone

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rvs053063
Aug 11, 2007
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I have a white flower on a black background. If I just choose to brighten the image, the background gets lighter as well. Is there a way that I can just brighten the white flower without affecting the dark background? Thanks.
Rick
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dave_milbut
Aug 11, 2007
yes. make a selection on the area you want to brighten (in effect, masking out the parts you want to leave alone) then do your manipulation.
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dave_milbut
Aug 11, 2007
I did something similar with this, only instead of brightening, i blurred the background a bit…
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rvs053063
Aug 11, 2007
What tools did you use to mask the area that you want to manipulate? Because this flower is very spikey, using the magic wand or lasso tool would be a lot of work. I was wondering if I could brighten the white spectrum by manipulating the hue somehow. I know you can do it with RGB, but I haven’t seen a way to just manipulate white shades. Nice job on the rose though. Thanks.
DR
Donald_Reese
Aug 11, 2007
You could also just do a curves layer or dupe layer on multiply mode and simply paint in the area you want brightened without bothering with a selection. might take time to brush in every spot,but it can go quick sometimes.
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Rod
Aug 12, 2007
wrote:
I have a white flower on a black background. If I just choose to brighten the image, the background gets lighter as well. Is there a way that I can just brighten the white flower without affecting the dark background? Thanks.
Rick
Post the image so we can see what you have.
DM
dave_milbut
Aug 12, 2007
What tools did you use to mask the area that you want to manipulate? >

It’s been a while, but it wasn’t difficult… I probably used the lasso to get the basic shape, then the quick mask with a med-soft tipped brush to smooth out the selection. then i inverted the selection and applied a blur to the background.

Nice job on the rose though.

thanks! learned everything about PS from the real pros here in this forum! just trying to pay it forward. 🙂
JJ
John_Joslin
Aug 12, 2007
By the way, that rose would be an ideal solution now for the new Quick Selection Tool in CS3.

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