Raw format simple 3 strokes cloudy area light large effect

We know the scenery photos taken on cloudy days, often there will be obscure color, light flat, contrast is not high problem, we use RAW format plug-ins, in Photoshop, a few strokes can be spent on the magic, so that you have a flat color of the cloudy day photos of the big changes in light and shadow, the effect of the image as shown above, It's not a hurry to learn.

(1) Open RAW format picture file, in ACR to observe the histogram of the picture, found that the image of the middle area of less pixels, the color map is concave, high light area and dark area pixel rich, no overflow. Photo exposure normal, color plain.

(2) Select the Gradient Filter tool on the toolbar above the panel to pull the gradient from the sky to the ground. Adjust the color temperature, hue, exposure, contrast and other parameters, the purpose is to give the sky clouds to increase the blue hue, while enriching the sky cloud details and three-dimensional. (The gradient tool is similar to creating an adjustment mask, and the changes you make to the picture only work on the picture in the gradient region, as shown in the following illustration, the parameters we adjust only work for the sky, and the ground tones have no effect.) )

(3) Continue to select the Gradient Filter tool on the toolbar above the panel to pull a gradient from the ground to the sky. Adjust the color temperature, hue, exposure, contrast and other parameters, the purpose is to bring up the warm colors of the grassland, strengthen the contrast with the Sky Blues.

(4) Back to the tool surface, select the Brush tool on the toolbar above, click the new brush, set the size of the brush you want in the right-hand parameter area, set the feather value parameter to the highest, and the other parameters to the same default. (The Brush tool is also similar to the mask effect, in the brush painting place to create a mask, and then the right parameters to adjust the mask area of the picture of the tone, and will not affect the mask outside the picture of the tone, so the brush mask is conducive to fine adjustment of the local tone of the screen)

(5) Apply a brush to the area where you need to create the high light. Then in the face of the right to adjust the color temperature, tone and other parameters, it is obvious that a large to the right to move the color moderate tone value, increase the contrast and saturation, we so around the haystack is very obvious to establish a high light golden color area light effect, This area is the mask area created by the brush, and there is no change in the image outside the area.

(6) Place the brush on the adjustment brush icon to see the area that displays the adjustment brush, which is the gray area shown in the following illustration, including the condition of the range and feathering edge. There is no modification to the image outside the area.

(7) The adjustment of one brush will require fine modification. Select Clear on the edge of the adjustment brush parameter area. Reset the desired brush size and a slightly lower feather value, and decorate the edge locally near the area light. Clear the destined brush is to eliminate the tonal adjustments made by the previous brush.

(8) After adjusting the area of light edge, back to see the brush mask adjustment of the high light area, found it necessary to do some details of the adjustment, the opposite version of the parameters of repeated debugging, know that in line with their own picture needs.

(9) Back to the base panel, for color temperature, hue, contrast and saturation and so on to make fine adjustments.

(10) Point open version of the saturation adjustment options, respectively, increase the saturation of yellow and blue, reduce the saturation of green. The specific value depends on the effect of the photo.

(11) We look at the final repair effect, the following figure, here we remember to grasp the points, when shooting as much as possible using raw format shooting, in addition, cloudy pictures can be taken to refer to the text of the revision of ideas, is not very simple.

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