Moonlight photo

I have been taking some moonlit photos with my iPhone 12 Pro, which takes pretty good low level light photos. But as you can see in the first photo, introduces a distracting red to the shadows.

So, I brought the photo into Xara (you can do this in Designer Pro or Pro+ or Photo & Graphic Designer), and created a vector mask for the hot part of the photo.

I cloned the photo, placed the mask over the red area, and Intersected Shapes (Arrange > Combine Shapes > Intersect Shaped) to have the red portion of the photo separate.

Using the Photo Tool > Enhance Photos I modified the intersected shape as follows:

Photo Brightness -10
Saturation -90
Photo Temperature -45

Xara is so good for these kinds of edits.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

I have been taking some moonlit photos with my iPhone 12 Pro, which takes pretty good low level light photos. But as you can see in the first photo, introduces a distracting red to the shadows.

So, I brought the photo into Xara (you can do this in Designer Pro or Pro+ or Photo & Graphic Designer), and created a vector mask for the hot part of the photo.

I cloned the photo, placed the mask over the red area, and Intersected Shapes (Arrange > Combine Shapes > Intersect Shaped) to have the red portion of the photo separate.

Using the Photo Tool > Enhance Photos I modified the intersected shape as follows:

Photo Brightness -10
Saturation -90
Photo Temperature -45

Xara is so good for these kinds of edits.

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Thanks for showing the procedure you used.

Gary,

I do not understand why you chose to clone the picture and did the mask/intersect shapes part?

Why would you not just mask the bright areas and then apply your changes to the red areas directly? This is the way I have always done it for darkening areas or light different areas of a photo.

Now I don't do a a lot of photo manipulation directly in Xara so this is why I am asking why you did it the way you did.

Thanks
Ray

Ray - I am more used to working with and creating vector shapes and this method just seemed the right way to do the task.

Thanks for the tip GP. =D>

Best just shut the patio door curtains before taking the photo Gary ;))

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Best just shut the patio door curtains before taking the photo Gary

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Everybody is a comedian. :rolleyes:

that's a patio? I thought it was the porch :eek:

nice work gary :)

It is a porch

:)

Verandah perhaps? :D

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Verandah perhaps?

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That's rather grand. It's a small 8 x 8 foot deck. :)

still, plenty of room to stretch out when lying horizontal for most of us :D

We have dinner on that deck in the summer when it's warmer.

I have been to dinners where I eneded up lying horizontal on the deck.... but like you say, best avoided in winter...