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In this movie we are going to continue our conversation about how we can
enhance our photographs by adding light as well as how we can work on the
overall color and tone. We will be working on the file corwig_bike.psd. You can
find it in the Chapter 01 folder. Go ahead and select that file and double
click it to open it up in Photoshop. Press F to go to Full Screen View mode and
then press the Spacebar to click and drag to reposition the photograph.
Now I like this particular image because of the juxtaposition. The real
high-tech track bike. One of the most amazing bikes ever built really and it's
in this warehouse. So kind of this high- tech in this old warehouse environment.
I like the natural light. Yet, I want to add a little bit of drama to this
photograph. So I'm going to focus down on the layers a bit. So I will go ahead
and double click the Color tab and double click the Adjustment so I can focus
in on my layers. Now if your layers are too small, you can right click or
Ctr-click and choose a different size. I will go to Large Thumbnails, so we can
see that thumbnails a little bit more readily. All right, well now that we have
this, one of things that I notice that I want to do is again I want to add
drama. The lights are a little bit too even for me. So I want to accentuate
this idea of juxtaposition to make this image a little bit dramatic. So I will
click on my Background layer, copy it by pressing Command+J on the Mac, Ctrl+J
on a PC and I'm going to name this layer tire. Next I will navigate to the Filter pulldown
menu > Render and then Lighting Effects. I'm just going to work on this back
tire or this back wheel over here. I'm going to choose Omni. I want to just create
a little bit of an Omni light on this particular wheel, make this one a
little bit smaller. Now as far as the overall Ambience I'm going to brighten the
overall Ambience up, add a little bit more light here. Click OK to apply that.
Now let's take a look at how we are doing. Before and after. So again, just
bringing a little bit more to this area of the image. Now I notice that I have
a few problems though. The yellow on the bike isn't looking too good. I went
a little bit too far there. So let's do this. So let's create a layer mask or add
a layer mask. But let's do this unique way. Rather than just click on the
Add Layer Mask icon we are going to hold down the Option key on the Mac, Alt key
on the PC. Then click on the icon, so that the mask is filled with black.
Next we will grab our Brush tool. Now that we have our Brush tool, make this
brush a little bit bigger. I will do this by pressing the right bracket key and
I'm going to then paint with white. Now currently black is in my foreground
color so I will press the X key to foot those two and then I'm just going to
start to paint with white here to bring in a little bit of white to this tire.
Now I have a little bit too much light on the bike itself. So I'm going to mask
that out, I will press the X key and I will go ahead and just paint back across
this. Now if my particular masking right here isn't very good, that's okay.
It's not the end of the world because we can always modify that layer. We can
do that by navigating to our Mask panel and then increasing the Feather, which
will then increase the softness of the edge of that particular mask. Let's take
a look at our before and after. Three is before and there is after. Okay well,
some pretty important detail there. All right, well, next what I want to do is
apply another light effect to the overall image. In order to do that, what I
really need to do is merge these two layers together. How am I going to be able
to do that? Well first I'm probably going to want to lower the Opacity here. I
don't have to lower the Opacity but just to make sure this blending looks really
nice and then on the Mac I will press Shift+Option+Command+E, on a PC Shift+Alt+Ctrl+E
to merge the underlying layers to the top. I will name this top layer
Light. Next step navigate to our Filter pulldown menu > Render > Lighting Effects
we are going to go ahead and add another Omni. This time in the middle
of the bike. What we want to do is brighten up this bike, make this puppy glow.
Now that's a little bit too bright. I think you would agree, right?
We will lower the Ambience there a bit. We want to have quite a bit of
brightness on the bike itself. Click OK to apply that. Now when I do that one
of things that I'm starting to notice is I'm having some problems with the
image, right. There is way too much brightness on this tire back here and I'm
also just blowing out all the detail here on the yellow part of the bike. I can
fix that by using my mask. So I want to make sure I have my Mask panel open, I
will click on the Mask icon. What I'm going to do is navigate to Color Range.
So when I go to Color Range. I can then click on a particular area of the
image. In this case I'm clicking on the yellow of the bike. I'm going to
increase the Fuzziness until I see that I have a pretty good selection of the
yellow of the bike. Next I will click on the plus icon eyedropper. I will go
ahead and just click across this particular area of the image. I can also click
in the Mask. Either one will do. Now I went too far. I grabbed some of the
background, and some of the bike so I need to undo that. Press Command+Z on the
Mac, Ctrl+Z on the PC. Go and click OK to apply that. So now what we have is this
adjustment that's just affecting the bike. So we can see our before and after.
Well interesting, because that's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.
So I will go ahead and make sure I have targeted the mask. I can see that by
the little brackets around that as opposed to the brackets that now are around
the image. I can also see that the Mask panel is highlighted here and I will
click on Invert. Well now that I have inverted that I have added light everywhere
except for on the frame. So here we can see our before and after. Now that light
is much, much too strong. Yet, all I need to do is back this off. I'm just looking
for a little bit of a snap, a little bit of a redirect. So that this image
has a touch more about the bike and here you can see just like I'm turning
the light on and off in this area of the image. We also have this layer in the background,
right. We can still control the intensity of that and when I look at that
now I realize, it is just a bit too high for me. So I will bring this down. Well,
here is my tire. There is the overall bike. Now let's see our overall before
and after. Hold down the Option Key on the Mac, Alt key on a PC and now here
is before and then after. Again, just redirecting the focus to this portion
of the image. Well, let's take that even further and we will do that in the next movie.