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    Black bear taken in Orr Minn last spring. Not sure if the out of focus grass is to distracting. To close to the bear for me to pull it out of the way.:)

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    Nice portrait Rich! I think the grasses in front of the bear are a little distracting, so in my repost, I cloned them out and then increased the contrast with a curves layer and a linear contrast setting. Then I used shadow/highlight filter in CS3 to bring out the detail in the bears fur.:)

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    Nice repost by Dan, I like the pose and peaceful feeling of your original capture. Well done.

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    Thanks for the repost. I was going to try and clone out the grass but I thought I couldn't get the hair pattern right. The shadow/highlight tool helped a lot. Thanks for the tips.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rich P View Post
    Thanks for the repost. I was going to try and clone out the grass but I thought I couldn't get the hair pattern right. The shadow/highlight tool helped a lot. Thanks for the tips.
    Here is a tip. Use the healing brush or clone tool with the blend mode set to darken...only the lighter areas will be filled in ;)

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    Nice comp with good detail in the face/eye.

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    Wonderful capture and I agree that the peaceful look of this image is very appealing !!!! Well done !!

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    Wow, nice one! I also cloned out the grass -- and just out of curiosity, I checked to see how much fur detail lurked in those shadows. There's quite a bit. If you shot raw, or even using the full-size jpeg, you could do better than my rather hasty edit. (I only cropped to show the comparison.)

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    David, How exactly did you open up those shadows so well?

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    Quote Originally Posted by denise ippolito View Post
    David, How exactly did you open up those shadows so well?
    In CS3, I used the shadow/highlight filter. You have to play with it, because the default settings generally won't do. I might have overdone it slightly here. It's also a good idea to duplicate the image first and convert that layer to a smart object so you can reopen the s/h dialog and make further adjustments.

    You can also open the jpeg in Camera Raw and work a similar (sometimes better) effect on shadow details. But it's a fairly involved process of playing with a variety of sliders. Here's a quick example of that, minus the cloning.


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    David, Thankyou! I use S/H in CS4 but it's the fine tuning that is hard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by denise ippolito View Post
    David, Thankyou! I use S/H in CS4 but it's the fine tuning that is hard.
    Yes! When working with shadow details, the trickiest settings are radius and tonal width. Midtone contrast, way down at the bottom, can also be important.

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