From the course: Fixing a Distracting Background in Photoshop
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Using adjustment layers to create better color - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Fixing a Distracting Background in Photoshop
Using adjustment layers to create better color
- The next step that we'll be taking in our project will be to create two color adjustment layers. One which affects just the subject, another one which affects the subject and the background together. Let's begin by clicking in to the top layer, the Portrait layer. Then click on the Curves adjustment layer icon. Here let's create an exaggerated adjustment. I'm going to click and drag down. You can see that I'm darkening everything, the subject and the background. Or we could click and drag up, and you can see how we're brightening everything. Rather than having this affect the entire image, the foreground and the background, I just want it to affect the subject. To do that we'll click on the Layer Clipping Mask icon, it's right here. Now we have an adjustment which allows us to control the brightness and also the contrast that we have here on the subject. Let's brighten the subject up a little bit because it seems like it should be a little bit of a brighter, more high key light, so…
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Opening up both images in a single Photoshop document3m 19s
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Selecting the subject from the background6m 20s
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Using adjustment layers to create better color2m 13s
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Adding a glow effect to the subject6m 20s
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Retouching the face and improving the eyes4m
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Adding curves and reviewing the final image4m 41s
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