Levels Gradient Possible?

[Amigoat]

Hello - I have a situation where my image is 'faded' from left to right.

The left hand side of the picture is 'not bad' (but could use a little touch up). As we progress to the right the image becomes lighter and could use more and more touch up.

I've tried selecting narrow vertical adjacent rectangles and using the levels tool (to greater effect as I moved to the right). I suppose that with enough time and patience (and narrow enough selected rectangles) I could come up with a consistent colouration across the face of the image but---!!

So, is anyone aware of a plugin that would provide a gradation of the effect of the levels tool across the width of the image?

Or of some other way to clean this image up?

Using PS 7 and Windows 2000.

Thanks.

Ernie

[Wojcek]

Normally you solve this by using a mask on the adj. layer, but since I haven't seen the image I can't give a 100% solution, because it could be that the correction is not very linear and no, there is no plugin to does this kind of stuff and why would you need one... you can solve this with Photoshop only.

[Amigoat]

Thanks for your reply.

Here is the image i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww50/Amigoat/SamplePIX.jpg

Hope the jpg format is OK.

Its the same image for the colouring problem and the distortion.

Ernie

[mfox]

What you can do is, create a Level Adjustment layer and add a layer mask to that, then apply a gradient to that layer mask.

[Amigoat]

What you can do is, create a Level Adjustment layer and add a layer mask to that, then apply a gradient to that layer mask.

Thanks for pointing me at the level adjustment layer and applying a gradient to that layer mask.

This did (after some fumbling on my part) exactly what I wanted.

Thank you.

Ernie