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Filling in the highlights

Filling in the highlights - Photoshop Tutorial

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Filling in the highlights

I have saved my changes as Enhanced barn.psd, found inside the 14_levels_curves folder. In this exercise, we're going to begin the task of darkening the snow, because it still needs more definition. If you look at this landscape here, we have a little bit of shadow detail underneath the barn, and we've got nothing going on in the background. Now, in order to solve this problem, in order to add a little bit of additional detail to the highlights, I'm going to add another Curves Adjustment layer, and we're going to mask this layer, so only the highlights are affected. Rather than using one of the selection tools, we're actually going to dig in to the Channels panel, and we're going to create what's known as a luminance mask, which is about this simplest kind of mask that you can create. So, for starters here, I want you to Alt+Click or Option+Click on the eyeball in front of the Background layer, so that we're just seeing that original image. Notice that the barn is extremely dark, and…

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