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Luminance blending

Luminance blending - Photoshop Tutorial

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Luminance blending

I've saved my progress this far as Violet Beauregarde.psd. Now we have done a great job of making this girl's skin blue just by rotating the skin tones around. But we've got blue hair as well, and the bigger problem at this point is that the image is so very washed out. So we need to burn the shadows in, in order to create richer, more volumetric forms. So here's how we're going to do that. We're going to use another Adjustment layer incidentally. So make sure the blueness layer is active, then go up to the Adjustments panel. And in order to see all the color adjustments that are available to us, you've got to click on this left pointing arrow head, and that will return to the adjustment list like so, and then I want you to create a new Brightness/Contrast layer, and that happens to be the very first icon in the upper-left corner. Now if you want to name the layer as you make it, which I suggest, then you press and hold the Alt or Option key. Once again, it forces a dialog box if one…

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