dark shadows

Mike Hide wrote:

I took some shots of my first grand-daughter on her first birthday . One of the shots was taken outside, and believe it or not the sun was out.

the sun was overhead resulting in very deep facial shadows in particular .Any solutions that I could use to correct these shadows without the rest being overexposed would be appreciated …..mjh

Photoshop CS’s Image>Adjust?Shadow/Highlight is hot stuff.

If you’re on an earlier version of Photoshop, you can also do an excellent job using curves. Convert the image to Lab, and add one curve point to boost the quartertones (about 1/4 the way from the black end of the curve). That gets you your shadows.

Add another point at the three-quartertone to drop the highlights a bit, and add a third point at about the middle of the curve, so that the body of the curve is parallel to the diagonal.

Then convert back to RGB.

If you email me the image, I’ll add it to my misfortunate images tutorial: http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/misfortunate/index.htm —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

Tried to send an attachment but had problems with your email address.

incidentally what version of PS are you using for your tutorials, I am using version 7 ….mjh

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Mike Hide wrote:

I took some shots of my first grand-daughter on her first birthday . One of the shots was taken outside, and believe it or not the sun was out.

the sun was overhead resulting in very deep facial shadows in particular .Any solutions that I could use to correct these shadows without the rest being overexposed would be appreciated …..mjh

Photoshop CS’s Image>Adjust?Shadow/Highlight is hot stuff.
If you’re on an earlier version of Photoshop, you can also do an excellent job using curves. Convert the image to Lab, and add one curve point to boost the quartertones (about 1/4 the way from the black end of the

curve).

That gets you your shadows.

Add another point at the three-quartertone to drop the highlights a bit,

and

add a third point at about the middle of the curve, so that the body of

the

curve is parallel to the diagonal.

Then convert back to RGB.

If you email me the image, I’ll add it to my misfortunate images tutorial: http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/misfortunate/index.htm —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

"Mike Hide" posted:

I took some shots of my first grand-daughter on her first birthday . One of the shots was taken outside, and believe it or not the sun was out.

the sun was overhead resulting in very deep facial shadows in particular .Any solutions that I could use to correct these shadows without the rest being overexposed would be appreciated …..mjh —

Select the shadows (Select > color range -or- magic wand -or- whatever). Select > Feather 2 pixels.
Ctrl-J to create a new layer from the selection.
On the Layer palette, change the mode of the layer from Normal to Screen. Adjust with curves if necessary.

Or do what Mike Russell suggests; he’s the expert.
– Max
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On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 17:30:37 -0500, Mister Max
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"Mike Hide" posted:

I took some shots of my first grand-daughter on her first birthday . One of the shots was taken outside, and believe it or not the sun was out.

the sun was overhead resulting in very deep facial shadows in particular .Any solutions that I could use to correct these shadows without the rest being overexposed would be appreciated …..mjh —

Here’s an idea – don’t know if the experts approve –

Go to levels and lower the Output Levels slider at the dark end just a bit.

Seems to work.

Alan.

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(Alan Walker) wrote:

Here’s an idea – don’t know if the experts approve –

Go to levels and lower the Output Levels slider at the dark end just a bit.

Seems to work.

How? The dark end of the Output levels is already as low as it can go, by default.
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okay, so "higher" it……the other way, to the right.

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 15:21:51 GMT, wrote:

In message ,
(Alan Walker) wrote:

Here’s an idea – don’t know if the experts approve –

Go to levels and lower the Output Levels slider at the dark end just a bit.

Seems to work.

How? The dark end of the Output levels is already as low as it can go, by default.
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