Graphics Programs Reference
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Step 13:
The image looks a little bit dark over-
all, so increase the Exposure to +0.95.
Okay, the image looks brighter, but it
also looks kinda flat, so this is where you
want to bump up the Contrast. Here, I
bumped it up to +70. The light outside
looks like it's blowing out and we need
to recover as much of that as we can, so
drag the Highlights slider all the way to
the left to -100. To open up the shadow
areas in the ceiling, we're going to bump
up the Shadows to +60. That brings in a
lot more detail, too. We still have a prob-
lem with the bright light, so we're going
to have to lower the Whites. There's such
a broad contrast between the dark ceil-
ings and the bright light streaming in that
we need to lower them to -50. And, to
keep the image from looking washed out,
we need to lower the Blacks. Anytime I
see an image looking washed out, the
first thing I think of is I need to lower
the Blacks, so drag that slider to the left
to -50. Of course, since an image like
this has so much texture, it's perfect for
Clarity, which enhances the texture, so
increase the Clarity to +53. And to bring
out the color, we're going to increase just
the Vibrance to +23, which gives us the
nice, vibrant look that we see here.
Step 14:
The last finishing move for this would be
to darken the edges all the way around,
so the focus isn't on the outside of the
photo, but kind of leads your eye to the
center. To do this, click on the Effects
icon (the fourth one from the right) at
the top of the Panel area, and go under
Post Crop Vignetting. Make sure your
Style is set to
Highlight Priority
, which
is the default, because it's the best look-
ing one, and then lower the Amount to
-20. That's really all we're going to have
to do—just lower the Amount to -20
and we're looking pretty good.
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