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Step Three:
Next, I would add some highlights to her
hair (it makes her hair have more dimen-
sion, and makes the lighting look better,
too!). Get the Adjustment Brush again,
leave the Exposure setting where we had
it before, then paint over just the high-
light areas of her hair. Once again, you
can tweak the amount afterward (here,
I lowered the Exposure amount to +0.41,
which looks pretty good). Don't forget, if
you find those Edit Pins distracting, just
press the letter
H
to hide them from view.
If you need them back, press H again.
Step Four:
There's only one more tweak I would make,
and that is to bring out a little detail in her
blouse. With the Adjustment Brush still
active, click on the New button (after all,
this is a new area we're working on, and
we want to leave the other areas intact),
double-click on the word “Effect,” so it
resets all the sliders to zero, then increase
the Shadow amount a little bit (I dragged
the Shadows slider to the right to +24),
and paint over her blouse (as shown here).
Okay, that'll get us to where we could at
least show this to the client. Now (and this
is important), you need to do these exact
same four tweaks to the other images you
put in that Selects collection (in this case,
it's only three images, but you now see
why you don't choose 20 or 30 selects—
that would be a lot of time spent tweaking
all those images, but with just these three,
it's literally just 10 minutes, tops, and your
images have a much better chance now of
being approved by the client).
