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Refining a localized adjustment for effect

Refining a localized adjustment for effect - Photoshop Tutorial

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Refining a localized adjustment for effect

Ben: All right, Lucky! You have got this really nice portrait that you have got in here, and I know and you have already done a lot of stuff to it. What have you done, roughly? Lucky: Well, basically I made another layer on top of a layer, and I blurred out the background, made a huge lens blur so it can kind of flush everything, all the harsh colors and all the harsh blacks and the whites. And I cloned out a car. Ben: That's right. There was an entire car, that's there. Lucky: Yeah, that was a car there. And I kind of lightened up those tones in her face over here, just to kind of even out the color differences. I brightened the highlights in her eyes, and I defined some of the shadows in her facial features. Ben: Fantastic! So as you took the image, it had pretty deep depth of field, and so you were feeling like Ben: the background was competing with her. Lucky: Mhmm, yeah. Ben: Okay, I think you decision to blur it was exactly right, and you have done a great job, and your car…

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