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Evening Class

Photoshop guru Martin Evening sorts out your photo-editing and post-processing problems

AFTER

1 Crop the image
I started by selecting the Crop tool to crop the
image more tightly. I also clicked Transform
to reveal the Transform options and apply an
Auto Upright adjustment. In the Basic panel
I increased the global contrast, lowered the
Highlights slider and added a positive
Shadows adjustment.

2 Add Radial
BEFORE Filter adjustments
I then added Radial Filter adjustments to
lighten the window on the left, the doorway
on the right and the path edge on the right.
With each Radial Filter adjustment, I
lightened using a positive Exposure setting.

Working with Smart Object layers 3 Duplicate the
Smart Object layer
DAVID Fairhead photographed this recreated sky. What I did here was something similar. I held down the Shift key and clicked on the
medieval street at Archeon in the Netherlands However, I found it tricky to balance the detail in Open as Object button to open in Photoshop as
using a Nikon Df with a super-wide zoom lens. It the sky with that on the buildings. I therefore a Smart Object layer. I right-clicked the layer
looks like a fascinating place to visit, although I’m chose to process the image two ways. First to get and selected ‘New Smart Object via Copy’,
sure the real thing wouldn’t have been so clean the lighting on the houses looking right, and then double-clicked the duplicate Smart
and tidy! I liked David’s original interpretation, second to achieve an optimum exposure for the Object layer and edited the settings to darken
where he chose to add more light and shade sky. I then merged the two versions using the sky. Finally, I added a layer mask to this
contrast to the buildings and added a darkened Photoshop to produce the fi nal version. Smart Object layer to reveal the sky area only.

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