Use illumination and light and shade to adjust beautiful scenery photos

Let's take a look at the comparison between the effect chart and the original artwork:

After adjustment

Before adjustment

The tone refers to the picture of the relationship between the dark and the level of the relationship between the image is a good picture of the important elements of the adjustment of the picture later in the adjustment of the first thing to consider. What kind of a picture can be adjusted to a good tone, may be at the beginning of the adjustment and not a positive idea. So to test a variety of different tone effects, using the adjustment layer to do the tone adjustment has a very obvious advantage.

This photo was taken just before the rain, the clouds flew away and the sky was about to clear up. When the shooting did not think good should be bright or darkened, first in accordance with the normal tone exposure shooting.

View Histogram

The "window histogram" command to open the "histogram" panel, you can see the current image of the tone status, the basic color level, the majority of pixels in the center, the image is normal midtones.

Use the adjustment layer to make the effect of light adjustment

First, make a light adjustment effect. Since the color level is basically complete, you can adjust the curve directly. Click to create a new adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel, and select the "curve" command in the pop-up menu to create a curve adjustment layer directly.

In the Curves panel that pops up, select the direct Adjustment tool.

In the image below the surface of the dark part of the mouse, see the curve produced a corresponding control point. Press and hold the mouse to move up, see the curve lifted up, the image lit up.

The bright part of the water does not need to be too bright, otherwise it will lose the level of water.

It is still a direct adjustment tool. On the surface of the light to press the mouse, see the curve on the corresponding control point, hold down the mouse slightly downward pressure a little bit, see the water back to the original tone.

At this point if the histogram panel is open, you can see that the color level of the whole to the right side of the bright part of the move. Category:

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