rswannabe

Sorry D. I had to step away from this one. I got very dicouraged and frustrated, as it was not turning out how I wanted. I'll pick it back up soon and see if I can get it.

I guess I'm still not getting it. When I bring in the other sky, I'm still left with those trees to mask.

How's this?

This is approximately where it was.

Ok. quick question before I start. I moved the "stream" image down in the original that I posted. Will that still work? Or, try it as is?

Hi D, This would certainly be the easiest way to go. I do think the sky from the tower is much more dramatic and colorful though.

Great question. Actually, I don’t care about them at all. But, the way I have the foreground positioned, if I mask off those trees to reveal foreground sky, it’s much more pale and didn’t look good/right. Hi m open to any suggestions.

Sure. Let me know if this one should be done differently. I'm headed to bed before I get any deeper in it tonight, but I know my next question will be how to mask out the trees for the new, lighter image.

Brilliant! I'll start on that tomorrow and post once I get it where I think it might work. Thank you!

Yikes. Ok. Here they are SOOR.

Hi D, Wondering if I could get your opinion on what to do with the dark trees in the backgroud. This is a two image composite (not neccessarily going to for realistic here). The sky, tower and dark trees are from one image and the stream, grass and most foreground are another. I don't hate it as is, but plan on printing this, so looking to make it as good as possible.

Very cool. thank you.

Sounds good. In the process, Datacolor is trying to upsell me to the Spyder 5. Worth the upgrade?

HOLY SHIT!!! I think I finally got it! I contacted Datacolor and they had me reset to factory, which I thought I had already done and a few other things. Anyway, at the end of calibration, it looked much better, but still a bit bright. But, now my brightness is at 30 and it's pretty damn close. Now maybe I can get some motivation to edit again! Thank you for sticking with me. As an aside, now that you're back on FB, are general questions prefered there, or here since I'm a premium member?

I’m on it.