Shadow & Highlight Adjustments Photoshop Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photo Shop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay, so in this image I am actually going to or in this clip I am going to talk about "Shadow and Highlights Adjustment" in Photo Shop. Now what I want to do is I want to work with the land over but as you can see on the roof of this house, I am sorry, as you can see on the roof of this house it is kind of blown out and there is not to much detail and on this wood there is not as much detail as there could be. So what I am going to do is I am actually going to do something called "Shadows and Highlights". So you go to "Image, Adjustments, Shadow and Highlight" as you can, now I am going to click "okay". As you can see it automatically gave me something that is beautiful. The reason why is because I have messed with the Shadow and Highlights earlier but as you can see here this is the original dialog box that is going to come up. If you want you can hit "Show more options" as I do almost every time and it is going to give you a whole bunch of options here. I have actually already played with this picture a little bit earlier so that is why it looks like completed, but you can still do some more. Say for instance on this rail, you can get some more detail and what you do is, you want to add more detail, slowly just by messing with these tools here. Highlights, you can bring in the highlights more as you can see the more I drag it the more the highlights come out, more detail on the highlight. As you can see the sky starts to look a little funny. All you do is play around with it. I can not really tell you an exact number on each one of these, where to put them because every image is going to be different. I usually do not mess with these two adjustments, but as you can see the green looks good, the roofs of these houses look a lot better and if I hit the "Preview" button you can see that is the before and that is the after. It looks a little over saturated on my part and I am actually going to bring down the amount of highlights just a little bit and the shadows just a little bit, because the trees is what is mainly in the shadows as you can see here. I do not want them look to fake but I do want it to pop. As you can see here the image pops just a whole bunch more. Okay, so I am going to hit "okay" and now we have ourselves a layer called "Land" because I like the way the land looks and we got the bottom layer which I have selected "Sky" because I like what the sky looks like but I am still going to change the sky just a little bit. So, if we were to leave the sky like this, it would probably be noise in the image, there is not to much noise in this, but as you can see you get a lot of detail over here in the grass area and stuff in the trees, so Shadow and Highlights works pretty well. We are going to move on to the next clip. "