ugh! i HATE brightness-contrast tool!! I argue about this one all the time at work. I prefer working with levels and curves….that way you have more controll over the image. By using the b-c tool…you make everything brighter or darker….while using levels and curves…you can make you darks darker..brights brighter..and also enhance midtones.
Perhaps PS should rename these tools so they sound a bit more intuitive. Same thing with SHarpen vs Unsharp ….always always always use unsharp mask vs sharpen…to sharpen.
Just some stuff that was ingrained in my head from my PS class at NYU i tood a few years back.
jj
"John Forest" wrote in message
I assume you’re talking about the lighting effect on the picture you sent. I would do it this way:
1 Select the area you want to be light and feather the selection with a large feather radius
2 Invert the selection
3 Using Brightness – Contrast, reduce both the brightness and contrast
of
the dark area. This will compress the image tones so it looks dark all over.
This assumes the original picture is well exposed and you want to turn it into a night scene.
