Shadow Removal

[nkeevers]

I've been following Dave Cross's video about removing shadows. He's doing it in PE4 and I'm using PE5. Help me if I'm doing something wrong or it might be different in 5.

1. I've used the magic want to select all the shadow areas.
2. Control-J to put the selection on its own layer.
3. Then I did Enhance/Adjust Color/Hue-Saturation.

Here's where it doesn't work. If I up the brightness (so the image shows it blending in with the background), it doesn't do anything.

Help!

[TonyW]

Norma: That's strange. Just tried exactly what you did and it works fine. Can't think why yours wouldn't.

Here are my layers with the shadow layer selected - A Ctrl-U brings up Hue/Saturation and the sliders make changes to the shadow.

shadow.jpg

Tony

[nkeevers]

Would mine not be working because I have from the bottom - background layer - duplicate layer - layer with the selection onit.

[TonyW]

Shouldn't make a difference unless you're applying the hue saturation adjustment to the bottom layer in which case you wouldn't see it. Make sure the top layer is selected.

Tony

[nkeevers]

I'll try it again and get back to you. I'm on my way out to dinner.

[nkeevers]

Well, it still isn't working and I have no idea why!

[nkeevers]

LOL! I'm answering my own question! I just figured out what I was doing wrong.

When I was on the copy layer trying to do the enhance/color/hue-sat, I had forgotten to change the mode back to "normal". What a waste of your time that was!!

[GaryK]

Norma

I haven't gone back to the video, but I did notice your selection layer was set to multiply (blend mode). If the video says it is supposed to be then disregard this post.

[nkeevers]

Well, I'm still having problems as you can see from my picture. When I up the lightness and hue to blend the shadows in, it's hard to get it a perfect match. But that's not the real problem. After trying to blend the line in (in mask mode) a little, I then went to use the clone stamp to get rid of the line and that's proving impossible for me. Also as you can see from the left side of my Dad's face, there is a weird black line along his face.

So now what did I do wrong?? Maybe I should try something else?

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[Juergen D]

Originally Posted by nkeevers

Maybe I should try something else?

Norma,
Cloning seems to be a good option. Mostly dealing with pretty plain and easy surfaces.



Juergen