1 Reply Latest reply: Jul 18, 2014 9:23 PM by fr4nk13xx RSS

    extract hazy colored photo image to new layer

    cyberbaffled Community Member

      For a computer game I want to extract the hazy portion of an astronomy photo to a new layer.  In other words, given a hazy, borderless colored object such as a nebula, I want to select all the colored pixels composing that image and extract them to a new layer.  This will leave an essentially colorless shadow of the extracted image in the background layer which I will subsequently color black.  This sequence will enable me to move the (colored) nebula -rotate or whatever- in the new layer against the static black background layer.  Anyone have ideas about how to accomplish this?

        • 1. Re: extract hazy colored photo image to new layer
          fr4nk13xx Community Member

          would probably a lot easier to answer if we saw the photograph. But if  I read it right, removing anything involves careful consideration what is under it. You only want to remove the haze not what's under it,? that would be cloning and or healing brush.  You want to take the haze off and put it somewhere else and keep the background to somehow animate it later? good luck. you would need to create the haze on its own layer from scratch.

           

          but as I said initially might be easier to comment if we saw the photo