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Creating a Shadows/Highlights shortcut

Creating a Shadows/Highlights shortcut - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a Shadows/Highlights shortcut

All right, we are going to take another stab at Shadows/Highlights Gaussian Blur, and the High Pass command, very different application of the High Pass command as you'll see, with the intention of fixing a fairly similar photograph. This one is called Priestess.jpg. It comes to us from Scott Griessel of the Fotolia image library once again, and this image is set against a white background this time. However, we do have a fairly high key effect going on, meaning that we have some very bright highlights; we have some decent shadow information as well. We don't have a lot of midtones in between and it would be nice to add a little bit of additional volumetric information, some contouring, some interplay between shadows and highlights; chiaroscuro, if you will, using something like Shadow/Highlights along with the other commands. Also notice that we have some strange coloring that work inside of this image too. Now this may be natural to the image, indigenous to that original digital…

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