| Hey EK, I'll admit these things are very difficult to describe.
This may help…
Think of your high-pass as a filter. Using this technique, when you use the brush tool to paint, instead of painting a color, the “ink” coming off the brush is the actual filter. So you just paint over the places where you want the filter to go, instead of applying it to the whole image.
Here’s the simplified approach. If you follow these steps, it should work.
1. Run high-pass.
2. Layer‡add layer mask‡hide all
3. click on brush tool
4. cover your entire subject using the brush tool.
AFAIK, The only situations where following the exact steps above would not work:
1) your high-pass isn’t on a new layer (there should be two after running the high-pass)- Download the reef-life Actions v.2 and the action should automatically do this for you.
2) You didn’t click the button on the tool palette that sets your foreground color to white and your background color to black. See the image with the arrow painted on above. |