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Making gradient and hand-painted masks

Making gradient and hand-painted masks - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC for Photographers: Intermediate

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Making gradient and hand-painted masks

Let's take a look at another example where a hand painted mask can really help us out to improve a photograph. With this image, I want to create two different adjustments. One adjustment for the shirt, and another for the face. Because what I'm interested in doing here with this portrait is bring more focus or attention to the subject. Because what happens when you look at an image is the eye is attracted to the brightest area of the photograph. And you know, what the brightest area of this picture, it's the shirt. So, let's go ahead and fix that. We'll do that first by clicking on our Curves Adjustment Layer icon. Next, you can select the Targeted Adjustment tool, and then hover over your image. When you hover over the image, notice that it's highlighting or showing a little circle here on the curve of the tonality underneath your cursor. In this case, we just want to work on this area here. So, we'll click and drag down. That allows us to darken this area of the photograph. Now…

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