This is For Roman

[Joanna Trescott]

OK, I am trying your technique you explained in landscape. I have a very light sky here and tried to do it using selecting color range. When am in select color range and I hold down the shift button and click on sky is it in the small b&w box or the actual photo? When I use the USM, should I be in the mask layer? I couldn't quite get the line to disappear, but it is a start. I ended up selecting the sky and then using a burn technique and then a little curves adjustment. Let me know what you think. Would it have helped if I had feathered the selection. If so, when do I apply that? Thanks so much for your help.

Canon 20D, 28-135mm @75mm, 1/160 f13, +2/3 EV

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Joanna,
I think I will post the reply in the landscape thread..........with pictures........so that others may follow.
Here is the link; http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ad.php?t=22649
Hope this works.........and yes........color range is done in the actual picture.......the color should return as you add to the selection.

[Charles Glatzer]

Joanna,

If you are trying to darken the blue haze/sky here are a few easy methods w/o the need for making a selection.

1) use HSL in LR2 pick Luminosity or CS4 Hue Saturation > set the layer blend mode to Luminosity, then pick blue and/or cyan color and make darker w/ lightness slider

* 2) or use Selective Color > pick blue and/or cyan and add black to the color.

Of course you can do this on a duplicate or adjustment layer and use masks if desired.

BTW-I like the image.

Best,

Chas

[Joanna Trescott]

Charles: I am still in the dark ages with CS2, but will try this when I upgrade to CS4. Thanks

[Charles Glatzer]

Charles: I am still in the dark ages with CS2, but will try this when I upgrade to CS4. Thanks

Joanna,

Most will work with CS2

Chas

[Roger Clark]

I've never seen anyone mention the "refine edge" command under selection. For the above image, I would simply do an approximate selection of the sky, do refine edge and adjust curves. I might change to LAB mode and do the curves on the luminance channel. It seems to me that this is much faster than some of the methods proposed here.

Roger

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Chas & Roger,
I hope you guys pop back to read this..........but the correction was for the landscape post in the link...........but i did try the selective color........and it did work. Would you guys go and correct the image using your method.........and re-post for comparisons........with appropriate detailed explanation of course. This will show that there is more than one way to skin a cat!. Here's the link; http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ad.php?t=22649
PS I don't have PS4 yet either.........plan on picking it up this week.......selective color worked well in PS 2.

[Mike Lentz]

My take....



Nik color efex 3.0
I dropped in a blue gradient (you can adjust level of darkness to your taste, this was done dark to show effect)
The I did a white balance correction on the goat as it appeared to be picking up some yellows from the surrounding rocks.
last step was to use the tool "Darken/lighten center" and I placed the spot to lighten on the goat and darkened the rest of the image ever so slightly to make the goat stand out.
This was done in about three minutes and you could spend more time on it to really dial it in. I use NIK software on about every image I process, its invaluable and a great compliment to PS.

[Jasper Doest]

IMO the original post looks a lot more realistic that the repost. I love this wideangle approach in wildlife photography. My suggestion would have been to move a tiny bit clockwise around the animal and place him a bit more to the right of the frame. But besides that a lovely photograph!

[D. Robert Franz]

Original post looked pretty good to me.. Nice use of the enviroment in this image.

[Mike Lentz]

I dropped in a blue gradient (you can adjust level of darkness to your taste, this was done dark to show effect)

I just had to point that out. :)

[Joanna Trescott]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I am slowly learning, but hope to get a pp system set up that works most of the time for me.

[Robert Amoruso]

I like the original.

Agree with Jasper the getting the animal more to one side was worth investigating. Something Chas taught me, make the tight image, make the lose image, make the portrait imageand vary the composition. Your there now so explore different takes on the subject.