Digital BW, The Print

As far as tree tips and making masks.. Their are many tricks to making selection masks to capture finer detail.. Here's one for you.. Before you put any gaussin blur on the mask duplicate the entire file.. now interpolate the entire file up to say 4 time size.. Adjust the image to gain more contrast doesn't matter what it looks like but don't go too nuts.. Make a couple of copies of the mask as needed on it's own channel..Turn the mask back into a selection and at this point you can copy portions of , expand , contract the selection & go back to a mask and paint or erase... When you got it where your happy with it .. Down size the whole works back down to the original size and drag that channel to a new channel in your original document then apply some gaussin blur to it .. This work great for hair and small stuff that is hard to mask.. 

No website at present  Pulled it down at the end of last year when I shut the business down.. I'm was a shooter that mostly did wildlife, scenic, western history, Indians , cowboys rodeos an da lot of product in the studio... Plus we did fine art scans and repro for artists .. stuff like that.. I still occasionally shoot my 8x10 but mostly DSLR today.. I had some health issues show up this year that I'll be dealing with looks like or it'll deal with me.. But I'd like to get a personal site up as I want to keep shooting as long as I'm able..  I'm in Paradise Valley between Livingston and Gardiner.. about 30 miles north of the Park..

jimbo


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  From: michael3442@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2014 9:15 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Workflow assistance?


    
  Jimbo, many thanks for that. I'll be printing out that masking info. 'cause I'm sure I'll be reading it over and over. If you get any further ideas on how to deal with the tree tips, please post them; I've really got to get this tree tips issue nailed down once and for all.

  Do you have a website where one can take a look at your work? I've read you posts for years but haven't a clue as to what interests you photographically. Also, what part of Montana do you live in?

  
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