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    Default 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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    Default Re: Moonlight photo

    Quote Originally Posted by gwpriester View Post
    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.
    Thanks for showing the procedure you used.

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    Default Re: Moonlight photo

    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

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    Default Re: Moonlight photo

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

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    Default Re: Moonlight photo

    Thanks for the tip GP.
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    Default Re: Moonlight photo

    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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    Default Re: Moonlight photo

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

    nice work gary
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    Default Re: Moonlight photo

    It is a porch

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