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    focus stacking - panel closes after alignment done

    Steve: resetting preferences seems to have solved the problem. Many thanks
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    focus stacking - panel closes after alignment done

    Yes, it is taking me back to square one. At the end of the progress messages about aligning the images, it flashes that it is creating the "unnamed panorama", then the panel closes. No progress is made into the "creating seamless composition" progress bar. The test images are jpeg files that...
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    focus stacking - panel closes after alignment done

    I do a fair amount of macro work and focus stacking has been a standard tool for some time now. It's a technique that takes a modest amount of preliminary work and the procedure is absolutely rote once the photos are loaded. No thought or additional manipulation required. But I've been having...
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    halos around masks

    A continual problem has been blending the edges of scenes where I've adjusted exposure in a specific area - e.g. sky vs foreground. In my most recent attempt, I created a mask from the blue channel and used image->adjustments-.threshold to create a very nice mask of a scene that included trees...
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    Install both PS4 and PS5

    I bought a copy of web premium cs4 at student prices, and upgraded later to cs5 basic. I may be lax with my nomenclature, but the cs4 version had dreamweaver as well as the photoshop tools. I bought cs5 and installed it on the same machine. Dreamweaver, PS / ACR, and Bridge are the tools I...
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    blending selection edges

    I would have kept the right area darker, but the edit in that area was good, as is the sky, but I can't do what I want with a global edit. There's three areas to be adjusted. I can adjust the bright hillside with levels to show more contrast and saturated colors, but anything I do is going to...
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    blending selection edges

    I don’t have the number of posts to provide links, see the relevant images at flickr.com/photos/rdtindsm. The images are labeled artifacts and orig_2. There are three areas that are being adjusted. I created a light hillside selection, a dark valley selection, saved them as alpha channels...
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    blending selection edges

    Sorry, I will post a picture ASAP. I usually work from home, but my dsl connection is down and I don't know when it will be fixed. I use selections and masks enough that I really need to figure out how to handle the problem as I am sure it is something that will crop up repeatedly. Is this more...
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    blending selection edges

    I am working on a photo that has two large areas, bascically the sky, a much darker shaded area, and a wedge area in between the two representing a normal daylight hillside. The photo is of the evrest base camp so evrything is rocky and brown or gray with light green from scrub. I have been...
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    file formats and work flow

    Thanks, that is helpful. Given that my status as a photographer is strictly amatuer, I will probably never be bothered if psd is not longer supported at some point in time. I do find it annoying that any time I open a dng file, I have to load it into PS through ACR. I'd already decided to work...
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    file formats and work flow

    I've read articles that suggest that a standardized file suitable for editing would be a good idea to work across different with the suggestion being .dng. Sounds good to me and photoshop acr will let me save my work as a .dng file and open the file to work in photoshop. But I can't save it from...
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    too sharp??

    Never said it was a print - it was scanned on my ls-4000 scanner from a slide. Only a step in converting to a print, or even a digital slide. and the question was only about the sharpening. I was looking for an image that showed the colors of koi carp in a feeding frenzy. Just grabbed one off...
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    too sharp??

    Thanks for the input. The first image was direct from the scanner without sharpening, and my understanding is that a digital image requires a certain amount of sharpening. I let the scanner do the work and it improved the image. The irregular polygonal highlits still seemed a little soft, the...
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    too sharp??

    Am learning to work with my images in raw mode, and have tutorials which describe how to use the sharpening in acr. I understand the process. I've also been getting by using the unsharp filter. I like the acr tool; I don't know if that's just my naivete. But I don't have always have the...
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    Simple Outline

    Ultiman: The video is good, I like it, BUT: Can you edit and remove the music? Beside the fact I simply don't like the music, it interferes with the voice over, making it hard to understand, particularly because it is very percussive. ANY music would add little to nothing to the oral presentation.
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    black and white, camera raw, and wide tone processing.

    I am interested in working in b&w using a dslr and CS5. I have been shooting with an output in both raw and jpg. Would like a road map to working in b&w in PS. My very imperfect understanding is that I can work on the files in ACR using 16 bit channels and that I can work in ps in a 16 bit mode...
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    masking cloud edges

    I have the basic understanding on how to use the masks and invert the selection. The problem is / was that that I wanted to use the edge of the cloud as the demarcation between the exposure adjustments. Very hard to do with a cloud, and the picture which was posted for me (thank you tron) shows...
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    masking cloud edges

    I can use basic masks to change the exposures on different layers, no understanding about the different blending methods. That is not the problem. The problem is that the edges of the clouds are very poorly defined and there is no particular edge to define. and you can see the artifact that this...
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    masking cloud edges

    One of the problems with taking photos in mountains is the contrast between a bright sky and a valley in the shadows. The linked photo was taken in the Everest region of Nepal and shows the problem. The photo was actually taken with a gradient ND filter, but the sky of the original needed...
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