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Old December 14th 08, 06:55 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
mianileng
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Wes Gray wrote:
I have this photo which I am pretty happy with:

http://picasaweb.google.com/wesleygr...93629613775842

It seems like I should do something to reduce the glare of the
flash.
I played around with brightness and contrast, and was having a
hard
time telling if I was making things better or worse. If this
was
your photo, what would you do with it?


Do you mean something like this?
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6883/geckops3.jpg


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Old December 14th 08, 07:33 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
mianileng
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Default Fixing too much flash

Wes Gray wrote:
mianileng wrote:

Do you mean something like this?
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6883/geckops3.jpg


Possilby. What did you do to reduce the glare in the cherry
without
wrecking the glare in the gecko eye?

I am interested in others opinions about what to do to the
picture
since I don't trust my own eye yet. My thoughts are that the
flash is a bit harsh. Do you agree? And then what
Gimp/Photoshop
techniques to use to achieve the recommended fix, since I'm
trying
to improve my skill there also.

I'm no expert and I don't claim that what I did was the best
thing. What I did was this: I smudged the surrounding red color
on to the flash glare with Photoshop's Smudge tool, set at 10%
strength, brush size 13. Then I dimmed the overall brightness in
Irfanview with Gamma Correction from 1.00 to 0.85.


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Old December 14th 08, 10:48 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Tony Cooper
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On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:15:19 GMT, Wes Gray
wrote:

mianileng wrote:

Do you mean something like this?
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6883/geckops3.jpg


Possilby. What did you do to reduce the glare in the cherry without
wrecking the glare in the gecko eye?

I am interested in others opinions about what to do to the picture
since I don't trust my own eye yet. My thoughts are that the
flash is a bit harsh. Do you agree? And then what Gimp/Photoshop
techniques to use to achieve the recommended fix, since I'm trying
to improve my skill there also.


If you want to tone down the glare, the simplest way is to create a
selection around the area and then FilterBlurGaussian Blur and
fiddle around with the amount of blur until you like it. Make sure the
selection is feathered. This affects only the area in the selection.

I used Quick Mask and a large, soft, brush and made one click of the
brush which means I had to SelectInverse before applying the blur.

Make sure you do these steps on a Dupe Layer of the original so you
can change it later if you don't like it.

(Photoshop, but probably also Gimp)

However, personally I'd crop the image to leave only part of
maraschino cherry in the image. I cropped just to the right of the
base of the stem. The detail of the gecko is your picture. The
cherry adds a little color and a relative size comparison, but the
whole cherry doesn't add that much. It out-weighs your real subject
and throws the image out-of-balance.





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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
 




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