Digital Light & Color

Mike's expansion method is particularly elegant, and sufficiently simple that I can reproduce it by remembering to expand the flower over the halo generated by blurring. Charles2 however, points out the virtue of a big lens and that a gradual transition between objects in focus and out of focus look...

OK, but perhaps blurring that does not draw information from masked areas could be available as an option? I'd like to significantly blur the backgrounds of flowers, and the present behavior makes this difficult.

The maximum blur radius in bilateral sharpen seems to be 20 pixels, and when the radius is set high, it takes very long to perform the transformation. I'd like to use a radius a lot larger than 20. Den, we both agree that blur samples and averages pixels independently of a mask. All that a mask does...

When an unmasked pixel is being blurred, at least with Gaussian blur, nearby pixels are sampled, whether or not they are masked. Consequently, halos are generated around masked objects. It seems more logical to me, and certainly would be more useful, if blurring would only sample unmasked pixels, or...

Here in order of increasing complexity, are six ways of increasing local contrast. Normally, I use number one, but when I need to push it, I use numbers five or six. 1. Unsharp mask, radius 100 (on the order of the sizes of objects), amount, 20-40%. 2. Blur with radius on the order of the sizes of o...

In PWP 5.0, the slide show maker crashes for me if I insert a slide, open the window for editing the slide's properties write something in it, delete the slide while the window is still open, and then insert a new slide. PWP does not crash if the editing window is closed before deleting the slide.

I am perplexed. The flood tool generates mask for similar connected pixels. How can it generate mask for disconnected pixels, the multiple sections of sky completely surrounded by tree branches? The comment about the unusually flat background sounds like an ideal situation for the range tool. Is it ...

I'm not confident that I fully understand. Suppose that in one session I return to Monitor Curves, pick my curve, then go to the print dialog, check the "Apply inverse monitor curves" print, then close PWP. When I later reopen PWP, I believe the "Apply.." box will still be checke...

I am concerned that I have not properly understood the documentation on the use of monitor curves. It appears to me that in general use (after you have already built and stored a monitor curve) when you are ready to print an image, you must step sideways by opening the Monitor Curves dialog and choo...

For more information on a closely related issue, see http://cool-palimpsest.stanford.edu/waa ... 1-308.html and a former discussion, at http://www.dl-c.com/discus/messages/2/1 ... 1211306971.