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Printing a color image

Printing a color image - Photoshop Tutorial

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Printing a color image

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So I've got this color image that I want to print here. It needs quite a bit of work to get it usable. This was a pretty high dynamic range situation. The camera metered for the sky, which is great, I protected all these beautiful wispy colored clouds here, but I lost the foreground in shadow. So I have already gone and made a bunch of adjustments. I first worked on the contrast to the clouds to see if I could really get them the way that I wanted, because that's kind of what had attracted me to this in the first place. And once I found out that I could get the sky looking nice, I went ahead and brightened the foreground. The problem is that it looks just a little flat, so I decided to then add an additional brightening through a gradient mask to give it more depth. So I have got brightening here that's ramping off as I head towards the horizon. Finally, I decided to add a little bit more depth by painting in some shadows here in the mountains. So I've got some darkening coming in…

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