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[Candelero]

You pass with < A+ >.


P.S.
Let's stop flooding the thread, shall we .


Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[DaForce]

yeah thats my job

[victor.nsy]

must agree it does look more appealing

victor nsy

[baw]

Hey Dominique-

I'm not all that great at PS. Would you mind explaining a little more of the process you just did with that image. I'm assumming you copy the layer and change the layer type? Whats the gradiant part?

Brian

[dominiquelaksmana]

hi brian, i don't know how to explain, but please try this,
i hope it helps. and victor, excuse me for posting this,
but i guess this is part of journey that the image above was going through....so this is it.
1. open your file. then create an empty layer on the top of it.
2. choose your gradient tool, and change the type from white to black, becomes white to transparent.
3. do a gradient to your empty layer, from left to right, or from right to left, or up to bottom, or the other wise..... up to you.
4. now you have your image, with another layer on top of it, which is the gradient white to transparent.
5. go to selection, load the selection on the gradient layer.
6. with the selection still on, go to the original image, copy and paste, with the selection.
7. now you have 3 layers. first is your background image, second layer is partial of your background image, third is your gradient white to transparent. hide your white-transparent layer
8. change the second layer to another mode but normal. you can see that the only thing that affected is only that "gradient" region. not all image. actually that was the main purpose of my gradient, because i don't know the other way around. if anybody know the workaround for this, please feel free to correct me or add some knowledge for me

regards,

[sv]

i don't know the other way around. if anybody know the workaround for this, please feel free to correct me or add some knowledge for me

could you not just copy the original layer, then add a mask, and draw a gradient in the mask?

I've read your post quite quickly, but this is the same result is it not?

[dominiquelaksmana]

hehe sorry sv, i donno how to do that, this is the only thing i knew. you want to elaborate how ? thanks

[sv]

dominique,
well basically your work is pretty amazing, and if you don't know about masks in photoshop then i think you'll find them really powerful to work with and make you get things done with more control and a lot more quickly.

on any layer in photoshop (apart from if the only layer is a locked background layer) you can add a mask.
It's this button:



you can then just paint black and white or grey scale images onto the mask to remove, add or partially remove bits of the layer.
You can even add masks onto masks.
You can generate masks from layer selections, you can generate masks from channels.
If you've ever loaded an image with an alpha channel into photoshop, and you'll notice it's black and white or greyscale, this is basically the same as a mask.

so to do what you described above:
copy the layer, add a mask, then draw a gradiant (black to white) in the mask. The advantage of doing it this way, is if the mask is wrong, or you want to tweek it, just redraw the gradient. it's none destructive, as you can just paint more white back in to add stuff, or more black to remove stuff. you can add layer effects like levels, or brightness contrast to control the gradient and the falloff of the map.... basically much better and much more control.

[Blitterswitch]

Sorry to be a pain, but could someone explain the purpose of using the gradient? Also if anyone has some good links to sites showing nice post production tweaks for renderings that would be amazing! Thanks.

[dominiquelaksmana]

thank you very much sv for the knowledge on this particular subject....i guess yours are more effective. i tried that just now, yes the result are pretty much the same, or i can say it's the same. cool top tip man. thanks...

@ bitterswitch, for me, the gradient are useful for partial contrast, or partial brightness in the image. for example your left part and right part of the image is too even, i mean, brightness, or contrast, or colour, just anything, and you want to make one part brighter or more contrast, to the other side, gradient can be very handy. i will show you one example. ofcourse this example is on the extreme side, just to show the effect.

this is the original picture:


this is with gradient : look at the contrast on the right side of the pict


left and right has different contrast. this is my purpose of gradient. sometimes contrast, color, brightness.
i hope i explained clearly,

best regards,

[sv]

dom - yes the results are the same, but the difference is the control you have with the masks. basically, if you needed to tweak it, you can tweak the mask with operators like levels or contrast and it will affect the image. i think with your method, you'd have to redo the selection again and copy again, and potentially any adjustments you'd made to the image need to be done again, but with a mask, you can just control the mask and the image is updated automatically.

P.S. sorry for the thread hijack!