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I’ve been given a color jpg image of 475 KB to print. It is a portrait, taken with a FjuiFilm S5000 digital camera in flash mode, indoors, with a dark background but with some bright incandescent ceiling lamps. The image is 960 x 1280 and has an sRGB color space.
The image seems quite flat. Whenever I attempt to increase brightness or contrast, several areas of highlight immediately "solarize" (saturate?). These seem to be broad areas that reflect the light (a broad forehead, for example).
I thought it might be possible to select these areas that are nearly-saturated, invert the selection, and increase brightness and contrast in those areas only.
The only type of selection like this I see is Color Range. I tried this, but I don’t think this will work for me. Is it possible to select areas of the image that are brightest?
Or is there an easier trail I should be going down?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Photoshop CS 8.0, Mac OS X 10.3.8
Thanks,
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The image seems quite flat. Whenever I attempt to increase brightness or contrast, several areas of highlight immediately "solarize" (saturate?). These seem to be broad areas that reflect the light (a broad forehead, for example).
I thought it might be possible to select these areas that are nearly-saturated, invert the selection, and increase brightness and contrast in those areas only.
The only type of selection like this I see is Color Range. I tried this, but I don’t think this will work for me. Is it possible to select areas of the image that are brightest?
Or is there an easier trail I should be going down?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Photoshop CS 8.0, Mac OS X 10.3.8
Thanks,
—
Please, no "Go Google this" replies. I wouldn’t ask a question here if I hadn’t done that already.
DaveC
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