masking question
I have a photo that is very contrasty and I have adjusted it so the subject (in the distant background) exposure is correct (it was overexposed), but there is a tree in the foreground that is severely underexposed. If I mask over it by dragging my mouse across the tree without stopping, I get a nice mask -but- I'm not good enough at masking yet (even with auto-mask enabled) that I get -only- the tree and don't mask outside the tree. Kind of like not being able to color within the lines as a kid. So I do the best I can masking the tree and go back to the spots I missed and mask those too. The problem is that the where the original part of the mask and my patch-up to that mask overlap, the exposure effect I apply increases significantly in the overlapped area. Am I adjusting my mask wrong? Is there a better way to fill in the "holes" in my mask so that I get an even mask over my tree?
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If your tree is underexposed, you might get a better effect by brushing a mask roughly over the whole tree with a very soft brush, then using the shadow slider in the HDR tool. That would primarily affect the darker areas that you have masked and not the lighter areas round the tree. Better not to try to mask every branch and leaf, I suggest.
Or do a similar mask and on the masked layer pull up the brightness of the shadows using the slider at the right hand side of the shadows colour wheel in the colour balance tool.
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How about decreasing the flow of your mask? You'll have to paint over the area more for the mask to build but where it overlaps, it won't be as dramatic. 0
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