That might work sometimes, and there are a lot of other variations, such as a simple luminosity mask. I’d just add that in working with faces, particularly when the subject isn’t wearing makeup, some

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No, Put contrasty @ 100% on bottom Put softer on top @ 75%...+ or - to your desires OR put soft on bottom @ 100% and contrast on top @ 25% + or - Doug Schafer

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Great suggestion, Rick. I'll add that to my toolbox. Alec

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Thanks, Doug.. That was what I was expecting to be the answer. I've missed out on taking Dan's class so some of the processes aren't as obvious as they might be. To dig a bit deeper, Dan's instruction

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I often find with these sort of blends that calculating a difference channel between the luminosities of the two versions and auto-leveling that, and using that as a mask (and trying it inverted as we

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Typical easy is each image on separate layers Bottom layer 100% opacity Top layer 50% Doug Schafer

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In the last part of Chapter 9 in Modern Photoshop Color Workflow where Dan is merging two portraits (harsh/soft), what is the merging technique? It may have been covered earlier in the book but I had

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My thought process (in no way disagrees with Dan)..... Suggest you run your own tests. You won't get the math answer and I doubt Adobe would ever release the info (proprietary), but you will have a ma

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First off, thank you for your answers! For sure you know way more about colors than me. Just to clarify my objective a bit - I'm working on a photo editor software and I'm trying to implement color co

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If you want to puzzle this out, you can use a granger rainbow to see which clean colors are affected. A long time ago (PS7) I worked out which areas were selected by H/S for each color using calculati

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John, The flip, or wisecracking, response to the question is, 1) Probably nobody remembers what methodology was used. The Photoshop team often has picked up pieces of existing code to create new comma

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Hi, the HSL panel in Camera Raw allows adjusting Luminance for 8 color ranges I assume. Does anybody know how those ranges are calculated? For ex. what does "Reds" actually mean, how does it determine

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