Use Photoshop to highlight or deepen tools

Sometimes using LR to adjust the photos will be the mountain to get thicker, how to adjust the mountain is difficult to solve the problem of rough side ... In the scenery photography in the late time to trouble the author.

The author found that there are 2 possible reasons for the above plateau:

　　First, the shadow pushes too high for example to push to 100.

　　Second, the light part is pressed too low for example to pull to 0.

What should we do if we don't want to change the above 2 values? The whole picture has been adjusted, then to change a few values, then the trigger will affect the whole body ... At this time we can use Photoshop to highlight or deepen the shadow tool for sorting. The simple use of Photoshop to highlight the depth of the shadow is actually a significant improvement.

(Enlarge according to the figure)

I also photographed the video version of the sharing, welcome to watch:

1080p:http://youtu.be/jbjliwfeqyu

Before

After

First, the layer to protect the map, the duplicate of the layer from normal to brightness , not change the part of the erased will appear partial color, you can try the subtle changes.

Then click on the Highlight tool keyboard shortcuts: O

Press ] to enlarge brush

Press [ shrink brushes

There are three items: Shaded Center lighting section

　　Intermediate range of gray-scale change in intermediate adjustment

　　Shadow changes Dark area

　　Bright part of the brighter area change

The exposure is set to 10%-30% or so, as the case may be set to do so can be targeted for local highlight and reduce the dark. To reduce the thick edge of the figure, so select the light to erase the thick side of the option key is to reduce the dark (deepen key), if not hold down the option key is Kaliang.

Contrast chart

In fact, if you know how to use the brightening or deepening tools, there are many changes in the play, the author is only a small part of the example. For example, you can use tools to increase the contrast between the star and the Milky Way when taking a galaxy or star track. At sunset, the deep shadow part is illuminated so that the dark layer is more prominent and so on. I hope you can give us a third.

The following is the author of the sketch, using the Samsung NX1 even 12-24mm f4-5.6 ed shot.

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