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Selective Luminance adjustments

Selective Luminance adjustments - Photoshop Tutorial

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Selective Luminance adjustments

In this exercise I'm going to show you another use for the HSL options. This time we'll make a few modifications to the hue and saturation values, and we'll also change the luminance of the sky. I'm looking at the changes that I've made so far, which include a bunch of basic modifications as well as some local adjustments, that I applied using the Adjustment Brush and the Graduated Filter tools. And if you didn't save your changes, you can go ahead and load mine by clicking on the fly-out menu icon, choosing Apply Snapshot, and then choosing Basic & Local, and you'll catch right up with me. Now, some of your may look at this image and think hey, Deke, I don't know if you've noticed, but this image is crooked. It's actually leaning to the left, possibly because of the ginormous weight of this dinosaur here. However, I want to actually enhance that affect. I want to make it lean even farther and crop for effect, not to straighten. So I'm going to grab the Crop tool, make sure it's set…

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