just b/c we use computers for this stuff now

i've got a grossly underexposed subject in an old family picture. it's under a shelter, and everything outside is fine. i've worked with this picture in photoshop, and messing with the color scales, i was able to draw some detail from the underexposed part, and not completely wash out the background (grass and rocks). however, the grass ended up being greenish, and yes, this is a problem. everyone that this picture matters to knows that grass was yellow and dead.

does anyone know a way to keep the grass yellow, and still be able to get some detail from the underexposed part??
if it will help, i'll go to the DML tomorrow and scan it in

9/28/2005 8:54:12 AM

use the lasso tool (or whatever else) to select the area that is underexposed. then adjust the levels like you did. that way just the part you selected will change and the rest will stay the same

9/28/2005 9:02:50 AM

go one step farther and create edit layers

9/28/2005 9:23:11 AM

Turn it up to 11

9/28/2005 9:39:48 AM

^^no fucking clue how to do that. shoot me.

^^^will give it a go.

9/28/2005 11:20:43 AM

The easiest way, I think, is to create a mask. Red the photoshop help. There's a button for it.

9/28/2005 11:52:43 AM

^yeah, thats basically what i was saying

9/28/2005 1:07:02 PM