Changing the Exposure in Post Production with Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jimmy Hartman with Expert Village. In this clip, we'll be showing you how to darken the sky a bit and kind of get the effect we're looking for with another adjustment layer using an exposure filter. I like the blue we added, but it doesn't quite match the tone of the shot. I think it needs to be a bit darker. So, what we can do for that, is if you're familiar with photography, you can adjust the exposure on your camera to increase or decrease the amount of light that gets on film. Now, we can also do that with an adjustment layer. So go ahead and click our adjustment layer button, and click on exposure for exposure controls. Now, we're just going to go ahead and bring our exposure down a bit, just to darken the sky a little bit. And that looks pretty decent. All right, now I think I'll just leave it there. You can do a little bit of offset here, as long as you don't get too crazy with it -- that's a bit much. So, we'll take a look at what we're doing. It looks okay. And again, that pretty much destroyed the rest of the shot we've been working on, so we'll use our mask to go ahead and just apply that effect to the sky, mainly. We're going to go and swap colors here, so black is the background color, and then we hit control and backspace, to fill our mask with black, and we'll go ahead and paint on with white the effect that we want. So we'll go ahead and start doing that. Okay, now fast forwarding, as you can see I've applied the exposure filter where I want it. You can see by my mask down here the area where the effect is applied. So all this top area which is completely white -- that effect's showing through -- and then I've grayed some of this area out, and kind of blended it with the original. So, if I click the eyeball right here, I can kind of see the difference that made. As you can see, the sky's gotten a bit darker. Not too much. But I think it blends a bit more with the tone of the shot. It's pretty dark up here at the top, and then kind of gets lighter as it comes down to where the sun is. So I think that looks pretty good."