![]() ![]() Use the healing brush to eliminate the bird from the lower layer, so you only have to concentrate on the upper for matching/blending. This type of edit where you are pushing adjacent areas hard in different directions tends to make sharp lines at the edges, worsened by the original bird in this case underneath. Automatically corrects the white balance, by assuming that the average color of the scene is neutral gray. If you shoot only in raw (so no raw+JPG), put the white balance settings of your camera on auto. Zoomed to bird, more careful selection technique & some feathering of the edges could smooth this out nicely. Takes the white balance used by the camera. I don't know of anything that can edit a RAW in this way. You could do a whole lot better from the original, though you may need to save it out as a 16-bit TIF to manipulate in this way, retaining the highest quality. It's all a bit crunchy because of the jpg start-point plus I didn't really take the required care to accurately select the bird. I over-cooked these edits to show how far you can push it. Essentially you can push the sky darker & the bird lighter, without each interfering with the other. Then you can treat each layer individually. Select the bird & separate it to a new layer, by copy/paste. I did this in Photoshop, as I don't have Raw Therapee. Any feedback would be appreciated!Īs noted in comments, look into layering. ![]() If you were going to try to pull off a similar effect, how would you go about doing it?įor context, I've started photography as a hobby within the past few months. What other methods are there to "stretch out" the colors in the clouds to bring out the details like in my last edit? I managed to create something I like by fiddling around with various settings until I saw some change, but I don't completely understand how the settings I changed created the resulting image.Is there any way to combine these two sets of settings to create a single output image with both the detailed clouds and the detail in the bird?.However, all of the detail in the bird is lost: Here are the settings in the Exposure panel I used:įor the second edit, I played around with the tone curves under the Exposure panel, and ended up with a rather aggressive curve which pulled a lot of details out of the clouds after I added some highlight recovery and maxing out the highlight compression. This brought out a lot of detail in the bird's wings, but the clouds turned into an even flatter gray: I created this first edit by lowering the "Black" and turning up the "Shadow Compression" in the Exposure panel. You can see some details in the clouds, but overall it is pretty gray and flat. I recently took this photo, and by playing around in RawTherapee was able to bring out two particular aspects of the image that I really like.įirst, the original (This is a "save" of the RAW from Nomacs image viewer, I created the edits below from the RAW): ![]()
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