Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
The goal of this exercise is for you to see how you can take painting curve adjustments on your image
even further. You will now edit your changes even more by painting with black.
1
Press
X
to switch your background and foreground colors. Your foreground color should now be
black.
2
Press
25
to set your opacity to 25%, and then start painting over some of the areas that you have
already lightened. Notice that you are undoing the curve change that you had made previously, but
only a bit at a time. If you keep releasing the Paint Brush tool and painting over the same area, you
would eventually build up to 100% black and no curves adjustment would be made in that area.
3
Experiment by pressing
X
to switch to a white foreground color and then paint to lighten another area
of the image. Press
X
again to change your foreground color to black and erase some of the adjust-
ment that you made. As you are painting, notice the changes that are being applied to your Layer
mask thumbnail in the Layers panel.
As you paint on the mask, you can see changes.
4
Choose File > Save. Keep this image open for the next part of this lesson.
Sharpening the image
In this next section, you will take all three layers that you have been working with and convert them into
a Smart layer. You will then adjust the sharpness of the image.
1
Select the Background layer in the Layers panel and then Shift+click the two curves adjustment layers
that you added earlier in this lesson. All three layers are selected.
2
Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl+click (Mac OS) the right side of any of those layers and select Convert
to Smart Object. All three layers are reduced down to one combined Smart Object layer called Curves
2, the name of the topmost layer.
