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Calming down highlights

Calming down highlights - Photoshop Tutorial

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Calming down highlights

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In the Exercises folder, you'll find a Photoshop document that is basically the state of this image where we left off in the last lesson. If you don't have one of your own, just to review, we had a color image here that we converted to black and white and did a bunch of toning to. Here is our original color image. We did a black-and-white conversion, added an adjustment layer to punch up the wood, added another to increase the contrast over here to try and make him stand out against the black shadow, and then another to play up these highlights on him. What's messing up the image right now is this stuff is just so bright, and I would really like to column that down, and I can do that-- you guessed it--with a Levels adjustment layer. As I said, I use a very small tool set. But again, I really think the thing with black-and-white conversion is about knowing how to play tone and light and shadow in a particular way to get the effect you want. So the normal controls that we use in the…

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