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Filling in the highlights - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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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Highlights, shadows, and midtones1m 16s
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Introducing the Auto commands7m 23s
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Adjusting Cache Level settings6m 8s
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Reading a channel-by-channel histogram6m 21s
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How the Auto commands work5m 22s
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Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color7m 7s
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Blending the Auto results4m 4s
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Introducing the Levels command6m 15s
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Using Levels as an adjustment layer3m 12s
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Applying custom Levels adjustments6m 8s
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Understanding the gamma value7m 39s
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The futility of Output Levels2m 55s
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Selections and adjustment layers5m 47s
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Opening up the shadows3m 40s
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Previewing clipped pixels4m 51s
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The black, white, and gray eyedroppers5m 7s
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Gray card tips and tricks6m 5s
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Making channel-by-channel adjustments7m 29s
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Introducing the Curves command7m 44s
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Curves dialog box tricks7m 16s
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Curves adjustment layer tricks5m 45s
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Correcting an image with Curves5m 32s
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Filling in the highlights5m 42s
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Neutralizing casts and smoothing transitions5m 37s
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