Frank Piechorowski
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+1Stop
Add one stop of light to an image in Photoshop.
There are times that we just wish we had opened up the camera one more stop. Maybe our shot is back lit. Maybe we just had the camera set wrong. What ever the reason, PS can help us add that extra stop.
Let look at this image. This is the Flea Market in the French Quarter Market in New Orleans. You can see that it was a VERY bright day out side by the blown highlights in the background, but yet our foreground is dark. A classic mucked up, back lit shot.
What I'd really like to do is add some light to this foreground to help bring this shot back in some form of balance.
1) First we'll duplicate our background layer. <ctrl><J> or drag the background layer onto the New Layer icon in the pallet.
2) Set the MODE of this new layer to "Screen"
3) Set the Opacity of this layer to 25%
Your layer pallet will look like this:
Setting the mode to "Screen" will brighten the whole image. The opacity of 25% is pretty close to 1 stop.
Here is the image we end up will. Still not an award winner, but a real improvement.
Note: If you need to add more then one stop of light to your image, Do this several times in succession. It's better to have 2 screen layers both at 25% then to have one screen layer at 50%.
This is the image with the above steps done 3 times...
Add one stop of light to an image in Photoshop.
There are times that we just wish we had opened up the camera one more stop. Maybe our shot is back lit. Maybe we just had the camera set wrong. What ever the reason, PS can help us add that extra stop.
Let look at this image. This is the Flea Market in the French Quarter Market in New Orleans. You can see that it was a VERY bright day out side by the blown highlights in the background, but yet our foreground is dark. A classic mucked up, back lit shot.
What I'd really like to do is add some light to this foreground to help bring this shot back in some form of balance.
1) First we'll duplicate our background layer. <ctrl><J> or drag the background layer onto the New Layer icon in the pallet.
2) Set the MODE of this new layer to "Screen"
3) Set the Opacity of this layer to 25%
Your layer pallet will look like this:
Setting the mode to "Screen" will brighten the whole image. The opacity of 25% is pretty close to 1 stop.
Here is the image we end up will. Still not an award winner, but a real improvement.
Note: If you need to add more then one stop of light to your image, Do this several times in succession. It's better to have 2 screen layers both at 25% then to have one screen layer at 50%.
This is the image with the above steps done 3 times...