Re: Paging them wot know photoshop

(not quite so) Fat Sam wrote:
> Vass wrote:
>> I took this tonight
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/canon-eos/2328775443/sizes/l/
>> its the trucks building up the defences on the beach
>> so, what can be done to improve the shot?
>> Crop (obviously)
>> what else?
>> Ta for any tips
>
> There's a couple of things you can do....
>
> Option 1...
> Copy the entire image into a new layer, desaturate that layer, invert
> it to a BW negative and then change the blending mode to overlay.
>
> Or...
>
> Option 2...
> Click on Image > Ajustment > Shadow & Highlights.
> Play with th esliders to pull out detail in the foreground while
> retaining the excellent sky.
>
> Looks like you had a day out on the North Norfolk coast...
> I took these last week between Snettisham and Heacham... Whereabouts
> were yours taken?
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/swampy_bogtrotter/2282471368/sizes/l/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/swampy_bogtrotter/2283057621/sizes/l/

Five minutes in Photoshop with the Shadow & Highlight tool produced this 
result
http://www.knoxsoftware.net/sample1.jpg