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High-key and low-key images - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
High-key and low-key images
We talked earlier about high-key and low-key images: low-key images being ones whose shadows are really crushed down to total black and lacking in detail, high key being the opposite--highlights that are blown out to complete detail. These are very easy things to create in Photoshop, and there are a lot different ways of doing them. Probably the easiest, based on the tools we've look at so far, is simply a Levels adjustment. Take your black point and just start punching your blacks down. If you want a little more control over that, you can do it with the midpoint slider. Or, we haven't worked with curves yet in this course, but you can use curves to define a curve to really precisely control exactly what you wanted to darken and what you wanted to brighten. There's really not anything more tricky about it than that. Let's look at one other way, which can be interesting partly because it can be little random and partly because it can keep you from having to do any masking. I am going…
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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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