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02/14/2005 12:48:25 AM · #1 |
This may be obvious, but I wanted to share it just in case....
Here's how I create high contrast black and white face shots without blowing out the nose/forehead/hands/etc (whatever the problem areas are in the particular shot).
Just make two identical layers in Photoshop....use brightness and contrast on the top layer to set the overall contrast and brightness the way you want it...go ahead and let the hot spots blow out.
Then hide that layer, and set the contrast for the second layer so those hottest areas are just underneath being blown out....forget the rest of the layer....it won't matter.
Finally, unhide your top layer and use a soft edged eraser (at say, 40-50% opacity) to erase the blown out areas of the top layer....your 'legal' areas from the bottom layer will show through, letting you get the best of each part without bothering with so much hand dodging and burning (besides, once those areas are blown out, they won't burn back in...that data's gone.)
Any thoughts?
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02/14/2005 02:24:48 AM · #2 |
Yeah. You can use layer blend options to do the same thing, "screen" and "multiply" for shadows and highlights.
You can use "cntrl-alt-tilde" to select the highlights off the base layer, "cntrl-J" to make a new layer mask based on this selection, and set the layer to "multiply" then fade it until things look right. Absolutely seamless. If there are highlight areas you do NOT want this effect to transfer to, you can use the history brush to restore them.
"tilde" is the wavy dash, ~ ....
Robt.
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02/14/2005 02:32:16 AM · #3 |
Awesome....thanks....
Everytime I learn something new in PS, I then find out there are 19 better ways of doing the same thing.....haha |
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