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Exploiting a "happy accident"

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Exploiting a "happy accident"

I've saved my progress as Colleen against sky.psd. In this final exercise I am going to elevate the contrast of this image because we ultimately want it to compare with these various paintings I've done in the past here that are found inside the Photo paint variations.psd file. So, you can see how the contrast is elevated, the saturation values are elevated. It's a much more vivid piece, if nothing else. So, let's do the same thing with our composition in progress here. I am going to click on the fine hairs layer to make it active so that I've selected the top layer in the stack. Then I'll press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac. Click the Black & White icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and I'll choose Brightness/Contrast and that will force the display because I have the Alt or Option key down. I'll just call this guy B/C, click Ok. Make sure Use Legacy is turned off because it might be turned on from some other wacky thing we did, I don't know. I'll increase the…

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