First Attempt at Tone Masks

[who10]

I was going through the "Postprocessing" forum and came across Tone Masks to improve troublesome contrast situations. The lower image is the base raw conversion preserving as much image detail as I could, the upper image the Photoshop'd end result... thanks "gmitchel" for your tutorials.

http://www.haskellct.com/photos/TestToneMasksA.jpg
http://www.haskellct.com/photos/TestToneMasksB.jpg

Any suggestions for further improvements would be appreciated...

David

The tutorial thread for those interested is
http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=30216&highlight=

[shniks]

The first shot looks great, and its a beautiful shot too - nice colours and love the child's smile. Thanks for the link, I must check this out.

[shniks]

Accidental double post....

[who10]

Thanks Shniks... once I got comfortable creating the masks the technique became a lot of fun to play with.


I was asked what the original capture looked like. Here's a link to a post that describes what I was trying to accomplish:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=39162