Well, the channels will require a little research. I don't mess with them as much as I could for our applications here. But I'll work up a few posts on The pen tool/paths you mention as well as Masks and Non-Destructive Editing which I think would be helpful.
But I have to get through the holidays with my 20 month old daughter first.
Sorry, I did not see this post for a long time. (My son, takes up a lot of time.)
Probably the best advice I got from Deke about channels is the dreaded calculations command. Now, a lot of people see it up in the images drop down and wonder what the heck it is.
Well, if you take an image that has high contrast in two of the color channels, but cannot really choose one that is greater, a good technique is to copy both, then use the calculation command to "combine" the two. Usually, if you play around with the settings in the command, you can get something that has a lot of contrast so you can then take it to your curves dialogue.
It is at that point where you really get the great selections. See, without that command, the channels panel would only really be useful half of the time.
I may get some time here in the next week or two to get something going to demonstrate the command to you all, if there is interest.
Sandeman
What???? You mean there is NO MAGIC RENDER BUTTON!
HUGE interest, kalmarjan. Tremendous interest!
Don
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Okay, I was just playing with Calculations for the first time, having read kalmarjan's post. And I mean playing, nothing the least bit serious. All I can say is, "OH Yeah! I'm interested.
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-How to Fit a Map to a Globe
-Regina, Jewel of the Spinward Main(uvmapping to apply icosahedral projection worldmaps to 3d globes)
-Building a Ridge Heightmap in PS
-Faking Morphological Dilate and Contract with PS
-Editing Noise Into Terrain the Burpwallow Way
-Wilbur is Waldronate's. I'm just a fan.
Oh ya... I'm most definitely interested in that and anything else PS related
Okay, I have some real life issues to sort through here, but I will try to come up with something over the next while to demonstrate this lovely feature.
Sandeman
What???? You mean there is NO MAGIC RENDER BUTTON!
Here's the (well hidden?) video workshop at Adobes site:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
Worth a visit!
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Umm....YEAH!!! Ok, PS mappers (or anyone else)--check out the video tutorial on "zoomify" and tell me you don't see the mapping possibilities here! Flash could do it before (or similar), but this seems to me a really intriguing idea: draw a large file at high res, with such detail one could zoom in, etc.Originally Posted by Carnifex
Great find, Carnifex! Thank you!
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Don
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Hey... very nice use of zoomify. Never thought of that!
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