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Calming down highlights - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
Calming down highlights
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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The nature of grayscale images3m 33s
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Converting to black and white using Photoshop CS4 or CS56m 17s
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More about the Black & White dialog box3m 19s
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Converting to black and white using Black & White adjustment layers3m 54s
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Converting to black and white in Camera Raw4m 5s
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Making an advanced tonal correction17m 33s
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Doing more tonal corrections14m 6s
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Calming down highlights10m 4s
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Vignetting8m 58s
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The trestle images2m 39s
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Handling tricky skies2m 43s
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Doing a selective black-and-white conversion2m 23s
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Toning1m 19s
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Split-toning2m 19s
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High-key and low-key images2m 31s
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Diffusion4m 40s
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Using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2 plug-in7m 46s
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