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1. Re: Isolating part of photo/texture question
station_one Apr 20, 2012 2:22 AM (in response to SteveH59)Sounds like you're new at Photoshop. Read up on Masks. It should be a trivial task to mask the vase and apply the adjustment just to the background.
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2. Re: Isolating part of photo/texture question
SteveH59 Apr 20, 2012 3:46 AM (in response to station_one)Hello station_one
Thanks for that.
I will have a look through a couple of tutorials to see if I get the hang of it.
Cheers
Steve
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3. Re: Isolating part of photo/texture question
Trevor.Dennis Apr 20, 2012 4:30 AM (in response to SteveH59)As advised, the first think you need to do is sperate the vase from the fence. You could just mask it, but much better to select the vase, and copy it to a new layer. The Pen tool would be the best method with smooth shapes like that, but Quick select followed by Refine edge will work OK.
Then place a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer between the fence and copied vase layers, and move the Hue slider to get the colour you want. Fine tune with the saturation and Lightness sliders. I did the same for the Vase because red and blue, make you spew. If you do the same think you need to clip the second Hue/Saturation layer to the vase layer byr Alt clicking the join between the two layers.
To bring out the texture use a couple of Curves layers, clipping one to the vase and other to the background. Click on the scrubby slider icon, and click on a mid-tone of the fence or vase, (depending on which you are working on. That places a point on the curve. Drag this point up a wee bit, and place another point a little lower, and drag it down a wee bit. I actually used the Topaz Detail filter.
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4. Re: Isolating part of photo/texture question
SteveH59 Apr 20, 2012 5:10 AM (in response to Trevor.Dennis)Hello Trevor
Now the vase really stands out.
Thanks a lot for your thorough explanation. I will get to work on it!
Steve




