What’s your Feather setting on the initial selection (that grows up to become a either the sharpened or blurred layer)? When I do this on portraits, I use 33-35 or so…
Atr
I may be mistaken – usual apologies if I am – but have you saved the background layer unaltered?
If so, try switching it on – it is a rather remarkable workaround IMHO whenever feathered halos appear
OK, Deebs, I need some explanation about how to save unaltered background layer, and then visualize the two selections (sky and foreground) and retain sharpening and curve adjustments. I’m not a PS pro, just a simple photographer.
Thanks.
John – the untouched background helps to fill in the gaps caused by recomposing feathered layers
Well, it does with me 🙂
And it does so sensitive to the image – if things look too obvious – copy the untouched background layer and maybe apply a bit of Gaussioan blur to it.
Once the whole stack has been compiled without gaps, flatten, save under a different fileneam apply a blur then sharpen (or was it sharpen then blur then re-sharpen?)
Anyway, workflow is, at times as individual as the image
in haste
deebs
