want to see the Copper Creek hut inside?
I know, I haven't shown the outside... well, yes, I did but it was a year or so ago and without snow. The images I've been posting with snow recently have all been of digital camera origin... The film I've been exposing has yet to be processed but should be soon... ("soon" as in "Ed Book soon" which may be longer than some other folks' "soons")...
here's the hut: (they are cabins and I'm guessing they are called "huts" because of the term "hut to hut skiing" used a few other places...
this image started out as six exposures... three of them had very bright windows and because I used an automatic metering mode with the Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera, they turned out very dark. The other three had no very bright areas so they turned out a lot brighter. These two images give an indication of what I started out with:
How did I do it? The first thing was to take the three images that were very dark and adjust the shadow areas (the majority of the images with exception of the windows). I used Photoshop CS's new Highlight/Shadow command and adjusted the shadows till the three darker images looked about the same density as the brighter three. Then, I adjusted color balance to give color to the images matching those of the brighter images.
Then, I used another new tool in Photoshop CS--the "Photomerge" tool. It's similar to the one in Photoshop Elements but has much better controls and can adjust larger size files. I used the "perspective" adjustment as well as the advanced blending option. I then took the three other images into the Photoshop Photomerge tool and joined those images too. (I was careful to choose the option to keep the images as separate layers for adjusting later) Then, when the image was in two parts, I joined them with the Photomerge tool. Because some of the areas were confused by conflicting lines due to my perspective and lens focal length, I had to do some tweaking using adjustment layer masks and some minor tweaking with adjustment layers for hue/saturation and levels.
My aim wasn't to make a purse from a sow's ear but to learn the capabilities of the Photomerge tool and the Highlight/Shadow tool. I like them...
Peace
here's the hut: (they are cabins and I'm guessing they are called "huts" because of the term "hut to hut skiing" used a few other places...
this image started out as six exposures... three of them had very bright windows and because I used an automatic metering mode with the Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera, they turned out very dark. The other three had no very bright areas so they turned out a lot brighter. These two images give an indication of what I started out with:
How did I do it? The first thing was to take the three images that were very dark and adjust the shadow areas (the majority of the images with exception of the windows). I used Photoshop CS's new Highlight/Shadow command and adjusted the shadows till the three darker images looked about the same density as the brighter three. Then, I adjusted color balance to give color to the images matching those of the brighter images.
Then, I used another new tool in Photoshop CS--the "Photomerge" tool. It's similar to the one in Photoshop Elements but has much better controls and can adjust larger size files. I used the "perspective" adjustment as well as the advanced blending option. I then took the three other images into the Photoshop Photomerge tool and joined those images too. (I was careful to choose the option to keep the images as separate layers for adjusting later) Then, when the image was in two parts, I joined them with the Photomerge tool. Because some of the areas were confused by conflicting lines due to my perspective and lens focal length, I had to do some tweaking using adjustment layer masks and some minor tweaking with adjustment layers for hue/saturation and levels.
My aim wasn't to make a purse from a sow's ear but to learn the capabilities of the Photomerge tool and the Highlight/Shadow tool. I like them...
Peace