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the Fill Light, (2) increasing the Blacks, (3) increasing the Clarity a lot, and (4) lower-ing the amount of Vibrance to get a bit of a desaturated look. Here are the settings I used on this image: Fill Light at 68; Blacks at 44; Clarity at +100; Vibrance at –47.If you like to apply heavy HDR[r]

here on location with a busy, and fairly unattractive, background).Shooting at a wide-open aperture (like f/4, f/2.8, or f/2, etc.) is very popular with outdoor portraits, because it creates a very shallow depth of field, putting the background out of focus, which adds separation and helps your subj[r]

ptgContinued241Chapter 9Fixing Common Problems The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital PhotographersContinuedStep One:Before we get into this, make sure you read the short intro up top here first, or you’re going to wonder what’s going on in Step Two. Okay, here’s a photo of a[r]

choose Image Size. When the Image Size dialog appears, in the Pixel Dimensions section at the top, to the right of the Width field, you’ll see a pop-up menu where Pixels is chosen (if this section isn’t active, turn on the Resample Image check-box at the bottom). Click on that menu and choose Percen[r]

ishes, so zoom in tight on an area where you see some, and then get the Spot Removal tool (B; its icon looks like a brush with sparkles around it, and it’s circled here in red). This brings up the Spot Removal options panel, and the only thing you need to do here is make sure the Type pop-up menu is[r]

Although it’s more of an advanced technique, creating your own custom tools isn’t complicated. In fact, once you set them up, they will save you time and money. We’re going to create what are called “tool presets.” These tool presets are a series of tools (in this case, Crop tools) with all our opti[r]

left/right to control the size.143Chapter 5How to Resize and Crop Photos The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital PhotographersPhotoshop Killer Tips Download from www.wowebook.comptgPhoto by Scott Kelby Exposure: 1/125 sec | Focal Length: 14mm | Aperture Value: ƒ/2.8 Down[r]

Advantage Two: Built-In Masks Each adjustment layer comes with a built-in layer mask, so you can easily decide which parts of your photo get the adjustment just by painting. If you want to keep an area of your photo from having the adjustment, just get the Brush tool (B) and paint over it in black.[r]

is critical. Because today’s digital cameras produce such large-sized files, it’s now pretty much generally accepted that the proper magnification to view your pho-tos during sharpening is 50%. If you look up in your image window’s title bar, it displays the current percentage of zoom (shown circled[r]

More Options checkbox at the bottom left.) Go down near the bottom of the dialog and drag the Midtone Contrast slider to the right, and watch how your image starts to get that crispy look (crispy, in a good way). Of course, the farther to the right you drag, the crispier it gets, so don’t go too far[r]

The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital PhotographersStep Four:In the Layout section on the left, the default setting is Auto (as seen in Step Three), and I recommend leaving that set to Auto to get the standard wide pano we’re looking for. The five Layout choices below[r]

too far). If you’re uncomfortable with creating your own custom Unsharp Mask settings, then start with this: pick a starting point (one of the set of settings I gave on the previous pages), and then just move the Amount slider and noth-ing else (so, don’t touch the Radius and Threshold sliders). Try[r]

get incredibly sharp-looking photos is to apply their sharpening once, and then go back and spot sharpen only those areas in the photo that can hold a lot of sharpening (for example, areas that contain chrome, metal, steel, buttons on clothing, jewelry, or even your subject’s eyes in some cas[r]

on the checkbox for Geometric Distortion (if I see edge vignetting [darkening of the edges], I turn on that checkbox too, and it’ll fix that at the same time). It looks at the embedded camera data to find out which camera make and model, and lens you took the photo with, then it matches that[r]

ptg251Chapter 9Fixing Common Problems The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital PhotographersContinuedStep One:Here’s the image we’re going to work on, and if you look at her eyes, and the eye socket area surrounding them, you can see that they’re a bit dark. Brightening the whit[r]

Shift-U) to Desaturate and remove all the color from that layer. Of course, there’s still a color photo on the top of the layer stack, so you won’t see anything change onscreen (you’ll still see your color photo), but if you look in the Layers panel, you’ll see the thumb-nail for the center l[r]