"Sharpening" is just a copy of the pepper that I took from one of the layers.
I'm not sure if I have your description here, so let me check. Are you saying that you went to one of the background layers, outlined the chili with magic wand or lasso or whatever, switch to move cursor, double-clicked inside the outline ... and then, Ctrl-C copy? Then, insert new layer, click on the layer, then Ctrl-V paste?
And the point of this is to have a layer which is normally not visible, but which preserves the selection outline in case one needs it later?
the case of "sharpening" here, I've set the blending to "soft light" and opactiy=67%.
So, in this case you took this layer which above seemed to exist for the purpose of preserving the outline, and you applied a filter to it? I suppose that as long as what you apply to this layer is only a filter, that the outline is still preserved, yes?
Can you say something about the rationale behind the blending and opacity choices ... what sort of considerations would drive these selections?
A masked levels layer restores the orange. The other levels layer takes out the blue cast. Note that the blue cast levels layer thumb is all white — no mask.
What you said you wanted to do here made sense, but I am having trouble connecting it with how you did it. I.e., to me it seems like you would want, bottom to top:
original
original copy touched up
chili selection with sharpening?
levels adjustment for overall blue
chili selection with levels adjustment to put chili right
But you have the overall adjustment on the top.
Thanks for your tolerance ... I think it is helping, gradually! |
