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Making advanced tone corrections with hand-painted masks - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC for Photographers: Intermediate
Making advanced tone corrections with hand-painted masks
The next area of this photograph that we're going to work on is the face. And here on the face, we're going to focus on darkening the highlights and brightening the shadows. In order to do that, we'll be making two different Curves Adjustment layers. And then we'll be hand painting in on the masks. Alright, well first let's work on the shadows. To do that, we'll click on our Curves Adjustment Layers icon. Then grad the targeted adjustment tool. And position your cursor over the shadows that we have here underneath the eyes. Then click and drag up, in order to brighten that area of the photograph. Now, obviously this is brightening that area and the rest of the image as well. That isn't what we want. So, here we need to invert the mask. You probably remember that short cut. It's Cmd+I on a Mac or Ctrl+I on Windows, or just go to the Mass panel and click on the Invert button in order to invert it so that the mass black. Once you have a mask which is black, you want to grab you Brush…
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