Photoshop PSCS Fill Flash

Straight Shadow/Highlight Filter

John Woods ACE PS7
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Figure 1 Original image from digital camera. Notice the dust on the lens (red circle)
That is my first task to remove the dust spots.

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Figure 2 In the Photoshop tool palette, click on the Zoom Tool

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With the Zoom Tool click on the image above the dust spot, this will increase the
magnification factor, so that you can see the dust spot easier.

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In the Photoshop tool palette, click on the Healing Brush Tool

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Select a small brush size as shown

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Figure 6 Click and select an area that is close to what the dust spot is covering
up, the healing brush will move the pixels from the source point onto the
destination point, with all the correct lighting applied to the cover pixels.

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Figure 7 Image after using the Healing Brush to repair the dust spot.

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Figure 8 Image after using the Healing Brush to repair all the dust spots.

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Figure 9 Select Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Curves

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Figure 10 Curves default dialog box opens

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Figure 11 Rename the Curves and select a color for the adjustment layer.

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Figure 12 Curves adjustment layer control panel open. click on OK

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Figure 13 Layers palette showing new adjustment layer added. To open up the
curves again double click on the Black and White circle icon.

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Figure 14 Click the mouse button and hold it down, while you move across the
image.

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Figure 15 As you sweep across the image, you will see a tiny circle riding up and
down the curves slope. This is measuring the density values within the image.

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Figure 16 Find the spot in the image that you can be sure it is a white point. In this
case we know the stripes of the flag are white, click on the brightest white you can
find.

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Figure 17 White point on image selected with the curves slider showing the
position on the graph.

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Figure 18 Info palette showing the white point RGB values

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Figure 19 Results of setting the white point in curves.

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Figure 20 Select Image>Adjustments>Photo Filter.

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Figure 21 Photo Filter default settings, click on the small arrow next to the filter
name window

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Figure 22 Change the Photo Filter to Cooling Filter (80) as shown.

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Figure 23 Results of changing the Photo Filter to Cooling Filter (80) adds a lot of
blue to the image.

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Figure 24 Reduce the density of the Cooling Filter (80) so the image isn’t quite so blue

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Figure 25 Results of reducing the Photo Filter density to 14% add less blue to the
image.

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Figure 26 Select Image>Adjustments>Shadow/Highlight as shown.

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Figure 27 Image>Adjustments>Shadow/Highlight default settings

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Shadow detail opened up

Figure 28 Results of the Shadow/Highlight default settings, the image is very

bright, also the detail in the shadows has popped out a little too much.

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Figure 29 Decrease the Shadows Amount slider to 10% as shown

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Figure 30 Results of Decreasing the Shadows Amount slider to 10%,the

shadows are darker, but stiil hold detail in them
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After

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