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Boosting contrast with a Hard Light layer

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Boosting contrast with a Hard Light layer

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- [Instructor] Here's a museum I photographed in France, and I really like the muted tones and textures of this image, but it's rather lacking in clarity and in definition. Now, we could just boost the brightness and contrast on it by using Layer, New Adjustment Layer, brightness and contrast, but as we increase the contrast, it also increases saturation. Well, we could change the blend mode from Normal to Luminosity, so it only affects the brightness values, but that seems to make it all rather too dark and brightening it simply blows out the highlights. So that's not the best approach. We'll put this away and delete that adjustment layer. Instead, we're going to boost it using a hard light layer. First, we'll duplicate the current layer and desaturate this layer using the Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity Adjustment, and we'll just take the saturation all the way down to produce a black and white image. Let's merge this down into the layer beneath it so we just have a single black and…

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