just started up my Photoshop that I haven't used for a long time. Follow a few chapters on the book to start creating my very first Photoshop effect.It's easier than I thought. Somehow those book didn't explained why they use those tools or techniques. It just one of those follow me don't ask kind of book. Perhaps, I should start taking a course seriously.
So I successfully created the B&W photo with color highlighting. See for yourself. I just used the magic wand tool to select the red "Chaba" flowers and use the select-->Invert to do the masking of the entire page, rather than the flowers. Then I created a B&W layer from the coloring layer tool (at the bottom of the layer pallet). I also created another layer for the Hue/Saturation to enrich the redness.
Another piece is the creation of High Dynamic Range from a single shot photo. Normally HDR is created by the Bracket function that you shoot 3 shots with 3 different setting of the same scene. The Bracketing allows you to shoot the under-expose, the normal, and the over expose. Once all three shots are combined, you
will have a photo that have details from foreground to background. The three shots can be combined easily using the special function called "HDR". However, we can create HDR fro
m a single shot by using three layers duplication. We make one layer of photo as B&W. We use the copy of the photo to another layer with Hue/Saturation and enhance the color. We then overlay all three layers together. You will have the HDR picture out of a single photo shot. Image on the left of this Swiss Lake is taking using normal exposure. The one on the right is the HDR created from that original picture. As you can see, more details appear on the second picture from foreground to back.
It's easy and fun. After my Norway trip next week, I might have a few more of my photo and some photoshop enhanced effect.
