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DigitalPhotoArtist [deleted] says:
1. Open your image in Photoshop
2. Duplicate the background layer
3. Add a layer mask to the duplicate layer
4. Click on the duplicate layer to make it active (instead of the layer mask)
5. Click Filter --> Topaz --> Remask 2
6. Make your selection and refine it
7. Click OK to return to Photoshop
8. Drop your new background image below the duplicate layer
9. Further refine the layer mask using black/white paint, Filter --> Other --> Minimum/Maximum, etc.
Posted 27 months ago.
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MGA
I think fiestared57 wants to retain the whole image and recolour just a part of it!!
If that is what you mean, then maybe you could try this method.
You need to work on a copy layer in Remask to isolate the part of the image you want to keep.
Then having isolated the bird, return to photoshop and add a Hue/saturation layer to the original layer (The new layer mask will be between the original layer and the new bird layer)
Then in the adjustment layer pull the hue slider over to the right.
You could also try a colour balance adjustment layer instead, it might be easier!
Originally posted 27 months ago.
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Harry Limey (a group admin) edited this topic 27 months ago.
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DigitalPhotoArtist [deleted] says:
Ah....you're correct, Harry! I misread the original post...
@fiestared57 - Use the method Harry described.
Hint: If you want to match the blue in the birds feathers, use the eyedropper tool to sample the color before creating the Hue/Saturation layer. When the foreground color swatch is set to the color you want, create the Hue/Saturation layer and click the Colorize box....
Posted 27 months ago.
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Thanks for the help, you're both right.
I want the bird and the twig to be as the photo and the background a blue hue.
Harry: not sure what you mean about the "copy layer" in Remask. I'm new to Topaz, please excuse the ignorance.
Posted 27 months ago.
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I think I've got it.
If I make the background layer active, I can then see the changes I'm making.
Any advice on what settings I should go for on the "Mask Hardness" and "Brush Sizes" for cutting around the bird?
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fiestared57 wrote not sure what you mean about the "copy layer" in Remask
I meant always work on a copy of the original image!
If you notice in the screen grabs that both myself and Mark have made, we have both created a copy of the original Photoshop 'background' layer
Mark has renamed his copy "layer one" and it includes a mask!
I have left it at the Photoshop default "Background copy"
Mark, how did you create that mask by the way, is there anyway to do that from inside Topaz remask? (and have you changed your screen name, I'm sure i didn't notice 'Mark' earlier??)
Originally posted 27 months ago.
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Harry Limey (a group admin) edited this topic 27 months ago.
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DigitalPhotoArtist [deleted] says:
@Harry - Added my real name to the screen name :P
If you create an empty layer mask before running Remask, Remask will create the mask instead of creating a cutout on the actual image.
@fiestared57 - I used a brush size of about 15 pixels and 100% hardness in Remask for this particular image.
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DigitalPhotoArtist edited this topic 27 months ago.
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Mark Abercrombie - MGA Media wrote If you create an empty layer mask before running Remask, Remask will create the mask instead of creating a cutout on the actual image.
I never knew that, what a great find!!
I hope you will not mind me mentioning this in the Photoshop group, I shall quote the source of course!!
Posted 27 months ago.
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Thanks for all the help, really great job.
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I didn't know that either Mark, that's great information. Perhaps I should read the instructions from time to time sfter all :{)
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Following Mark's excellent tip, and a little practice for myself, I have made a new screen capture to indicate how easy it is to create a Photoshop mask/selection with the Topaz Remask.
I also inverted the mask and created a new layer mask just for the background.
Please tell me if this is easy to understand and if there is a mistake!
I will pass details of this page to the Topaz forums, they have a new tutorials thread (On which our group is already mentioned thanks to Jorge!)
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Great post Harry, thanks for the help.
I was wondering if it was possible to switch between the bird and the background to do different things.
On a different shot, I'm trying to soften the background and sharpen the bird. I can do it but only by making a mask say for the background and flattening that. Then making another, same mask for the bird and working on that.
Originally posted 27 months ago.
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