my painting with light, or, faffing about wrecking as much as I can. PART 2.
With the photo dark, its time to undo some of it to get the windows, the person and some detail back in.
selecting the view edit option from the top brings the history of your editing up. Selecting any one of them allows you to alter the edit, or use brush to change selected parts or delete the whole thing. This is where it gets interesting for me. i select the curves and then the brush icon. This will then show me the image as it was before I did the curves. To see curves applied select inverse. I switch back and forth on that to see what details I may have missed that I want to bring back. When I’m painting light back in, I always select inverse to make it darker, then you can set it at 0,25,50,75 or 100%. That’s the amount of the curves effect you want on the painted area.
so with it dark( inverted) I will usually go to 50% and paint, the if it’s too bright, just paint over that area again at 75% or lighten more by going to 25%.
sometimes I will go back another level in my history and then edit that one as well if I want even more light, in this case, that would be the noir level, and brush some of that away. As you have the black and white layer below that, you won’t have to worry about colour coming through.
With some quick brushing and not being perfect in the strokes, your light isnt perfect, the brush strokes can be rough but I think that gives it the charm. The building I did was just a much lighter version of the example above but after some brushing just using the curves layer this is how it ended up.
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i Hope that makes some sort of sense. If you need any more pointers please ask.
it does seem, that snapseed is a true hidden gem for those that don’t need to do montages. the Only thing missing from it really is noise removal. proper layers would be nice, but saving an image, and then reloading it as a double exposure can shore up that problem a little.