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I am a huge fan of Michael Frye. I especially love his high -key images, and of course his Yosemite shots. I tried to replicate the look . I have been working on this for weeks trying to get the tones right . Comments appreciated. Any tips helpful! Thanks.
PS I hope I posted in the right forum.
I googled Michael Frye and went and looked at his high key images and I think you did an excellent job of nailing the look! There are a few small pockets of gray that you might want to clean up if that's even possible but the rest is really nice Denise! I think he'd be proud of what you did here!
Julie I saw those pockets as well- but when I removed a few the image seemed to go flat . I think it adds depth I wish I could change them to a shade of green instead. Any ideas on how to do that?
Denise, here's what you can do:
Select your eyedropper tool. Set it to a 3x3 sample (instead of a point sample). Click on one of the greens in your image and that will load the color into your foreground color box in the tools pallet. Now click on the paint bucket tool and click wherever there is a gray spot and it should convert it to the green. You might want to do several different shades of the green to make it more realistic but I think that will work fine!
Thanks Julie!!
Strong composition particularly with the colors !!! Excellent Great suggestions Jules !!!
Denise,
I like this too. High-key is difficult to get right, and you've done it. (I rarely even try.;))
Re. your "gray spots", I love a challenge! Gives me an excuse to see if I can figure out how to do something.:D
Here's what I did (it didn't take as long as it sounds; took longer to describe it than to do it):
First I zoomed in to 600% so that I could see individual pixels. Then used the eyedropper to sample one of the gray pixels that looked about mid-range for the grays present; made that the BG color.
Then sampled a somewhat lighter/brighter than middle green as the FG color.
Next I used "Select Color Range" to sample a bunch of the gray points, with a fuzziness of about 26 to keep from selecting white or pink pixels. I sampled mostly the middle to darker gray pixels, while avoiding the pinkish or really light gray pixels. Frequently reviewed the Quick Mask view of the image to make sure I was getting the truly gray spots and not other things.
With the selection active to limit the effect, chose the color replacer brush, set the mode to Color, tolerance to about 45%, set the brush size huge, and painted over the whole image.
Does that accomplish what you wanted?
Great job Chris once again thankyou!!! I am in the process of putting together another one .I'm sure your tips will help!!
Always glad to help (and I learn a lot in the attempt!)
Great repost on an already attractive image :)
Very pretty Denise with all the pastels. I like the greys changed to green, seems to fit the image so much better. Looks like a watercolour painting.
Beautiful repost Chris! I'll have to try that next time!
