Moonlight photo

[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.

[mcspade]

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.

[RKissane]

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

[gwpriester]

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

[wizard509]

Thanks for the tip GP.

[Egg Bramhill]

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

[gwpriester]

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

Everybody is a comedian.

[handrawn]

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

nice work gary

[gwpriester]

It is a porch

[handrawn]