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Coloring in the background - OOPS! - 04-21-2008, 12:02 AM


I filled in my black background with the paintbrush, had some wrinkles I wanted to get rid of, thought it looked pretty good, uploaded it to my website burned a copy for the client.....then I looked at the website on my new laptop with the fancy HD screen. THEY LOOK LIKE POOP!
You can see every line I colored. It looks like a 3 year old went to town with a paint brush on my pictures!
So I open up my PS3 to fix the problem and I can't hardly see the problem.
....Is there some way to make these stand out? Some sort of masking tool? Any suggestions.
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Only a guess in PS3 as i do not have it. In Corel Photo-Paint you can apply a Lens layer above the working layer. I think it is called adjustment layer in PS. Use a Gamma effect and change the gamma levels until you can see the problem. then working on the layer below either clone out the folds or select the color on that layer and use it to paint the folds. Turn off the upper layer to check your work. Remove it before saving your work. I suggest the clone tools. Layers are called Objects in Corel

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I couldn't get it to Gamma but I could do a Threshold in the adjustment layers that gave me what I was looking for. Thanks for giving me a place to start.
I was looking up the Gamma....Sounds like this is could be my big problem. Do you save images as 8, 16, or 32 bit? This was saved as 8 bit....I guess that's the default. I read in photoshop Help about the Gamma and I guess there's a whole method for saving for HD. I don't understand it all but sounds like you have to save it as 32 bit and then adjust the Gamma and highlights.
Can anyone explain this easier?

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