https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/01/01/two-takes-on-the-1-1-11-sunrise-philosophic-and-photographic/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/01/01/two-takes-on-the-1-1-11-sunrise-philosophic-and-photographic/comment-page-1/#comment-40208 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:37:51 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=3546#comment-40208 I love the soft colors of the first image.

]]> https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/01/01/two-takes-on-the-1-1-11-sunrise-philosophic-and-photographic/comment-page-1/#comment-40107 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:40:17 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=3546#comment-40107 Re the sun’s color, if you only intend the bird to be a silhouette, you may be able to get the wrong-colored sun to drop out completely by trying blend modes — generally Multiply or Darker Color, sometimes Hard Light. (Top left of the Layers panel.) Or you might desaturate the bird layer. And you may need to make the piece of the sun in that layer much lighter than the BG sun. With the right tweaks it will disappear and a clean “auto-cutout” of the bird will remain. This is done with the most control with a Curve that keeps the bird dark but makes the sun very light, basically white. Its easier than it sounds and the cutout is so clean its worth a little tweaking to make it work.

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