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OCTOBER 21, 2003 Lurker in the Shadows
Finally, change the blending mode of the Original Layer to "Soft Light" or "Pin Light," whichever looks better with your image.  [an error occurred while processing this directive]Now, if there are light portions of your image that have become blown out, you can add an Adjustment Layer to your Original Layer. In my case, the headband in the cowboy hat has all but disappeared. Choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels, and do the opposite of what you did on the Detail Layer. That is, move the middle input slider almost all the way to the right, and this should bring back all of the details that might have been lost in your highlights.  And so, with minimal effort and entirely without any fine manipulation whatsoever, we've brought out the detail in our shadows, kept the detail in our highlights and left the tonal and color range of our image completely intact. And, since we used Adjustment Layers for all of our Levels adjustments, you can easily go back in and make any subtle changes you need. The key is that you've gotten the base manipulation (the hard part) out of the way in essentially four easy steps: duplicating the background layer, a Levels adjustment, a blending mode adjustment and a second Levels adjustment. And all without permanently adjusting your base image at all.  If you have any further questions, be sure to visit me in the Adobe Photoshop forum here, or drop me a line at one of the locations listed below. Contact the author: Dave Nagel is the producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several World Wide User Groups, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Mac OS, Adobe InDesign, Adobe LiveMotion, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at dnagel@digitalmedianet.com. Prev 1 2 3 Related sites: • Creative Mac • Digital Media Designer • Digital Producer • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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