Photoshop View photos high quality dark color effect

A growing number of friends with high quality photos are using the raw format of the photo format and using ACR to restore the rich information recorded by Raw. Here is to introduce the use of "smart layer" mask to achieve different areas of exposure adjustment, while ensuring high quality performance.

We all know the raw format of the photos, only into the PS to use the Mask tool, you can expose the photos, color and other local range of adjustment, but simply in the PS interface adjustment, each step of the action is detrimental to the quality of the photos, and in the ACR work interface does not have a mask tool, For example, a high light and dark contrast of a large raw photo, if only using the ACR "recovery" and "fill bright" two tools, only a small scale to adjust the highlights and dark parts of the details.

First look at the original image and finally modify the finished product diagram:

1.Photoshop tutorial Open options

Open RAW format artwork in ACR. First click on the position of the lower Red Arrow at ACR, and in the pop-up dialog box, tick the pink arrow as shown in Photoshop to open as an intelligent layer.

This step is a prerequisite for using smart layers to convert the images back and forth between PS and ACR. With this feature, we can expose the image in the ACR subregion, color and other aspects of the adjustment, and such a method is far better than in the PS adjustment, because we all know: ACR in the raw file of the reasonable adjustment is lossless, and PS can not do this, each step is a lossy image, so, Most of the action is done in ACR, it can make the raw data perfect embodiment, but also ensure the perfect quality.

2, select the first adjustment site

This photo is focused and metering in the position of the red-haystack arrow, which is roughly in the middle, and in the position of the bottom three points of the entire screen, focusing on the position to ensure that the depth of the scene is consistent. First of all, we adjust the ground to adjust the process without regard to the changes in the sky part.

3. Adjust the exposure

First pull the exposure adjustment pole until the ground exposure is normal, adjust the contrast.

4. Adjust the halftone

Using the Curve tool, adjust only the light and dark tone, highlight and shadow do not move, because the ground part does not exist high light and shadow.

5, sharpening

The effect of sharpening the image in ACR is much better than PS, but because in the PS often need to change the size of the image, so in PS still to sharpen, so the sharpening in ACR need not be too high, generally around 50, using ACR sharpening tool, pull the adjustment lever, press ALT key, Can be intuitive to observe the sharpness of the scope and effect, and sharpen the mask can be no need to sharpen the site to recover, in general, we only need to sharpen the theme, so by pressing the ALT key, select the appropriate mask range, sharpen the theme at the same time, restore do not need to sharpen the site, this can effectively guarantee the quality.

6. New Layer Copy

Individual according to preferences to adjust, here do not do more introduction, the completion of the adjustment step click OK key, into the PS interface. What we see is a picture of the ground being exposed, and the sky is overexposed, and the next step is to adjust the sky. First right click on the layer (red arrow), select "Create new smart layer Copy from copy (blue arrow)" In the pop-up selection bar.