Graphics Programs Reference
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The Sixth Point:
Adding Punch and Enhancing Color
We already added our punch using the
Adjustment Brush's Clarity control, so here
we're just going to pump up the color a bit
by increasing the Vibrance amount to +19
in the Basic panel (as shown here), which
makes the colors in the background come
out more (her top was already pretty
vibrant, so it's affected less than the back-
ground colors, which were more muted).
Compare the yellow wall on the right here,
with the one in the previous images.
The Seventh Point:
Finishing Effects
Since we brightened the image so much,
the natural vignette that was in the
original image is pretty much gone,
so to add a vignette back in, go to the
Lens Corrections panel, click on Manual
at the top, then click-and-drag the Lens
Vignetting Amount slider to the left to
-69 (as shown here), and the Midpoint
slider to 17. A before/after, using just
these seven points, is shown here (you
can't really see the effect of the retouch-
ing in an image this small, but you'll see
it very clearly when you try it for yourself).
The changes to this image weren't as
drastic as they were to the clock image
(in the first project), but this is more likely
to be how most of your corrections will
be—not huge fixes, but more subtle fixes
and tweaks. Now, onto another project.
Before
After
