Join John Derry for an in-depth discussion in this video Using the Shadow/Highlight filter, part of Digital Painting in Photoshop: Street Scene.
Because the camera's sensor is imperfect, it can only succeed at capturing…either the highlights or the shadows, but not both.…Our goal is to restore, as best we can, whatever detail we can.…In this video, we'll take a look at the Shadows/Highlights Filter.…Now, I'm using the image that we're going to be going through with the rest of this title.…This doesn't have the extreme kind of highlight-shadow issue that we looked at…earlier with the interior of the church,…but it still will benefit from moving that away from the kind of exposure that…the camera naturally is going to give it.…
This is a good overall exposure, but we still want to move it away a bit,…and again the goal here is to transition from the language of photography to the…language of painting.…So in the language of painting, exposure is going to be much more even…throughout, because of the way the human eye looks around at the image and builds…it up over all of these varying parts of the image that it puts together.…So let's go to the Highlights/Shadow filter, and it's in Image > Adjustments,…
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Released
8/12/2011- Understanding that resolution is in the brush strokes
- Understanding the subject
- Removing lens distortions
- Using the traditional paint color swatch set
- Making shadow and highlight adjustments
- Simplifying details with filters and Smart Blur
- Cloning layers
- Using custom actions
- Working with canvas texture
- Creating physical surface texture effects
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 8s
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1. Photographic Reality vs. Expressive Interpretation
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2. Image Preparation: The Source Photograph
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Understanding the subject7m 16s
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3. Image Preparation: Lens Distortion Removal
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Removing lens distortions2m 33s
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4. Image Preparation: Photographic Color vs. Pigment Color
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Working with Vibrance3m 14s
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5. Image Preparation: Tonal Modification
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Using the HDR Toning filter5m 23s
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6. Image Preparation: Detail Simplification
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7. Non-Destructive Layer Painting
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Using custom actions9m 41s
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Using the reference layer5m 29s
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Cloning layers6m 5s
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8. Brushes
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Brush categorization10m 1s
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Working with canvas texture3m 41s
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Using Sample All Layers3m 46s
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9. Expressive Interpretation: Underpainting
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10. Expressive Interpretation: Intermediate Layer
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Simplified indication9m 3s
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Understanding color4m 10s
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Introducing texture11m 48s
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11. Expressive Interpretation: Detail Layer
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12. Expressive Interpretation: Non-Photographic Addition
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13. Expressive Interpretation: Final Refinements
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Waiting a day4m 14s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye57s
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