tailieunhanh - The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers part 40

The Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital photographers part 40 is full-color, graphically rich, and contains project-based examples of every key step in the digital photography process. Integrating all the newest features of Photoshop CS5 into the book’s workflow, Scott shows readers how to work with their images like a pro, from importing to organization to correction to output. In addition to fully updating the book for CS5, Scott has also added a brand new chapter, which lets readers in on his entire, personal post-processing workflow by incorporating his popular 7-Point System into this book | The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers Step Three Normally I start by adjusting the white balance see page 28 but in this case I m okay with the overall color temperature don t get me wrong I m going to pump up the color in just a moment but as far as it being too warm or too cool or just totally wrong I m okay with that part for this particular photo. That s pretty common for shots taken outdoors where white balance usually isn t a big issue . To get more contrast and punchier color go to the Camera Calibration panel and try out the different presets in the Camera Profile Name pop-up menu. The one that looked best to me was Camera Vivid but of course that s because my goal here was to really punch up the color. The added contrast it brings doesn t hurt in this case either. Step Four Now we re going to focus on the overall exposure problem which is sky too bright and buildings too dark. We ll start by lowering the midtones which will darken the sky for us so go back to the Basic panel grab the Brightness slider and drag it to the left until it reads -5. By the way I got to that number by dragging to the left until it looked good to me. Very scientific I know. Continued My Step-by-Step Workflow Chapter 13 371 The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers Step Five To get those buildings out of the shadows we re going to have to increase the Fill Light quite a bit so drag that slider over to around 70 as shown here which opens up the shadow areas quite a bit. Note When you really bump up the Fill Light like this you can start to get a bit of an HDR-look to your image which I kinda like but depending on how you feel about that look you may not want to push it that far. And if you add lots of Clarity which I will shortly then it really gets that look. For now let s just add the Fill light and move on. Back in Chapter 2 I mentioned that if you push the Fill Light slider this far you might have to increase the Blacks amount so the image doesn t .