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hi guys jamie mcintyre here and welcome
to this Photoshop secrets tutorial today
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we're gonna look at how we can restore
highlights and shadows in a single jpg
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in Photoshop now usually we work with
raw files because they have a vast
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amount of information from which we can
polish shadows and highlights and end up
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with a nicely balanced image over use
multiple exposures for an even cleaner
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effect but if you only have a single jpg
to work with there are ways in which we
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can control our shadows and highlights
to some degree and I'm gonna show you
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one of those techniques now so to begin
with we open up a brand new less then we
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choose a paint bucket tool and we set
off for ground to black by pressing this
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button here no I want to try and restore
some of these highlights in my image and
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maybe get some color back in this area
too so I'm gonna do that by painting
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this little black now I go to the blend
mode of this letter and change it to
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soft light now on YouTube lenders into
our exposure and we can do that by
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creating a mask making this image
invisible I'm going to image apply image
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and using the same settings as my
dressing ok now you can see we've
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applied a mosque 21 you live and this is
what the must looks like and it's
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basically built around an exposure here
but if we make this live visible will
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see that it's affecting most of the
image and we only want to affect the
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highlights so we need to make this must
be more specific and we can do that a
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number of ways but here which is going
to make sure the musk selected and go to
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image a try image and just do the same
thing again and will repeat the process
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one more time so now we can see if we
press call to action on a Mac we can see
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we have a more specific mask targeting
just the highlights and if we make this
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visible we can see the highlights of
soften now and we've pulled some
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information back in those areas now to
strengthen the effect you just press
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Ctrl in jail commander on a Mac and we
bring the opacity down until we're happy
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I'm going to bring it down to around 50
percent and then I'm going to group
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these lists so we can see before and
after this is before we brought back the
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highlights and this is after
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and you can see when not affecting the
foreground number I approach uses we can
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do this very easily if we just delete
this letter and other leaders mask to
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all we need to do is make this layer
invisible pariah pro and choose dark 313
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done that we can make the levers Apple
press Ctrl in jail commander J to
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duplicate the layer and just reduce the
opacity and that's it
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very quick process that we can also do
the same thing for dog returns in our
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images if we have an image like this
which is under exposed to bright hope we
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can open up a new layer mixture of focus
on asset to white this time painting on
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you later changed that blend mode to
soft light blended we can either create
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a mask making invisible and go back to
image apply image but this time press
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invert and that'll inverter mass
targeting just the shadows or anything
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quicker process is to double-click on
this lair go to blend if down Ctrl and
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Alt or command an option on a Mac and
just snapped this hour and a half and
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bring it all the way down and press OK
and when that's done we just need to
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bring your personal of this layer all
the way down let sit around 60% and now
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we've restored the shadows in a image
and resuming will see that there isn't a
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great deal of noise or colonize being
added during that process now this does
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depend on the scene and the quality of
the file it working with if it's
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extremely dark scene and you working
with the low quality JPEG file then
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you'll probably see a lot of noise and
colonize so be careful about how you use
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this ultimately it's always better to
bracket and definitely better to shoot
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in RAW but if you do only have jpg there
is still hope and I hope you found this
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tutorial useful if you have feel free to
comment or subscribe to my YouTube
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tutorial thank you very much and have a
nice day