How to Fix Dark Shadows in Photoshop
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2024
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In today’s episode, we show you how to fix dark shadows in photoshop.
Working with Dark Areas
It can be extremely annoying to deal with dark areas of an image. Using Curves isn’t always the best option because the highlights of the image tend to get blown out as well. We ran into this same problem when trying to use Levels to brighten up dark areas. So with two of our most commonly used techniques rendered useless, we had to find another method that would brighten up the shadows without blowing out the highlights.
Shadows/Highlights
Our best option is the Shadows/Highlights options. This allows us to only effect the shadows or only adjust our highlights. This is an extremely powerful tool because of the precision is gives us when working on an image. There is even a way to bring the color back into our image which really helps tie it all together.
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this was so helpful. I always wondered about the glowing rim around foreground subjects, but now I know it may just be the radius level. Thanks Aaron
Brillant demo Aaron. Thanks
Phlearn your always on point with info. I'm so happy I found your page! Thanks a million times!
Perfect and quick video (not superfluous at all) for helping me locate and better understand the shadow/highlight adjustments. Thanks man!
Thanks again for the quick tip Phlearn, I really appreciate it. x
I love all your videos! They're so educational! Thank you!
You just saved my life, Aaron. Thank you!
Excellent, thank you! I never knew about Shadows/Highlights! I will definitely be using this in the future!
simple yet very effective video tip. thank you very much Aaron.
Oh I love it. Solve the problem for so many years to me.
Thanks a lot.
Short and sweet, well done !
This is fantastic and exactly what I needed. THANK YOU!
Thank you. Best Photoshop tutorials on the internet.
After all these years, who knew there was a "show more options" for the Highlights and shadow adjustment. This is fantastic!
Thank You!
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I know nothing about photoshop. Sometimes I just need help adjusting a photo so I can paint it. I never know what I’m doing. I generally find TH-cam videos to be to quick and never explain anything. THANK YOU. I’m in a zoom meeting with my class, and trying to figure out how to edit this photo (per my teachers suggestion) so I can paint it for my in class assignment. I’ve watched some videos before this and literally almost gave up. I’m happy I didn’t or I wouldn’t have discovered your channel. Subscribed and happy about it!!! Thank you for a simple quick fix, and I am now get to painting so I won’t fall behind. I paint slow enough as it is.
This video saved my printing life. THANK YOU!!!!
Hey Aaron I love your video tutorials, thanks.
Awesome tip! Going to use it right now. Thanks!
Thanks for reminding me how to use it, plus I love your humor!
just applied to this a photo I was working on that needed it and it was major help! thank you!
Your tutorials are the best in youtube :) Thank you for these :)
Wow. Nice tutorial! I have learned alot! Thanks
It helps me a lot as a beginner in Photoshop. Thanks for your great sharing.
Thank you once again good sir! Always appreciated.
this guy is amazing!!!
Hey Aaron, your videos are very helpful. Is there a way to do this across multiple images at once?
I'm a big fan. I've learned so much by watching Aaron's tutorials. I would suggest creating a Smart Object (Filter - Convert for Smart Filter) BEFORE adding in your highlights and shadows. That way your not doing destructive editing.
Thanks Aaron!
great tutorial! thanks.
thanx aaron that is great a technical :D
That was very helpful, thank you!
Hey Aaron thx for the tutorial. When editing for fashion do you suggesting correcting tones and color before skin and garments or the other way around? Thx!
Thanks for your help
your videos are amazing! They mean a lot to me!
Thank for this information
Hi aaron ! thanks for that good tip ! I will use it on old photos I scanned
that was sooo helpful! Iv been doing it wrong all along!
Thank you!
adding that trick to my PS habits. Thanks
Hi Aaron, like this muc - as always ;-) Is there any advantage of this method over working with luminance masks?
Nice work Aaron
Gracias Maestro
Amazing - you made it so simple :)
Great video! That takes me over the top on a few things which have been annoying me, mainly harsh shadows vs bright highlights.
Thank You Aaron and you're Great and i have a question, how can i create pixie dust in photoshop, and what are the conditions of using these techniques like should having dark background
Although I was aware of the feature, I enjoyed Aaron's smooth approach. The same tool is available in Lightroom as well, though with a limited options. I use it quite a lot - having a 14 bit .NEF RAW file really gives you a lot of details in the shadows, especially when you underexpose the image intentionally to get faster shutter speed, for example.
Thanks again and keep those great videos coming.
thanks it's a good way
Raw to the core.
Super cool trick.
Thanks for the very useful tip. In Lightroom develop module there are the hightlights/shadows and whites/blacks sliders that enhance any image. Youve shown the highlights/shadows adjustment in PS, but is there also a whites/blacks adjustment in PS?
I like mixing this feature with some basic masking to remove that outer glow, as well as some low opacity and very soft strokes to certain areas of the photos that need them; such as a highlight that gets washed out or some type of circumstance similar to that. Overall, fantastic video!
Thanks!
great tut... love all the video's you do. love the shirt I got also...
I would go for the camera raw highlights/shadows controls... is there any difference?
Awesome............Thanks.
I thought this would be about the shadow behind him, but that's exactly the problem I always stumble on when doing that with curves and levels! So thanks a lot! :)
Super useful!
Great stuff!
thank you for this :)
amazing it works
Wish I found out about this sooner!
How do I adjust Shadows and Highlights in video clips (as a global adjustment)? Thank you and great videos Aaron.
nice and quick :D thanks
Thanks for tutorial .. :)I just want want to ask about the pen you use.. what is model name of it?Thanks again
You are always the best Phlearn..
Can you do some episodes on how to change objects from 2d to 3d and apply image textures to it, please? Thank you and happy New Year
amazing I like your videos thanks
Hey Aaron - Is there a way to blend several landscape images together - same scene, but from many different times of day, and (importantly) blending the sky together so it isn't a hard transition? So the blend from an afternoon to evening to sunset sky has a smooth transition and not a hard or jarring transition of the different colours? Thanks!
Hi Aaron
Is this better/worse than using the shadow adjustments in ACR ?
Gracias .
hi aaron i was watching ur video quite a while and it helped me a lot. im a begginer with no idea at all in editing in photo shop but the videos that uv made helped me a lot.
just having a problem with the one im editing this time coz the back ground is so bright that the image is totally washed out do u have any video tutorial how to fix that kind of situation?
Good lesson, however, I am curious: Once a Shadows and Highlight adjustment is made, is that same tool still able to be edited after you make an adjustment? I seem to not be able to recall the tool and have it return showing my adjustments and therefore, my adjustments seem destructive to THAT layer. Is there any way to call up and change those edit without staring over?
amazing!
How do you use the magnetic lasso ?
Could it be a featuring episode ?
Thx.
Happy new year, from the dinos.... :D
Hey Aaron.... I loved this video..... Could ya make one dealing with the opposite effects? Too much white in the picture.
i'hv been watching you're tutorials on almost regular basis & they're all awesome...
can you please make tutorial on how to make awesome double exposure photos
that would be great... :-) thank you..!
thanks
Any advice on correcting B&W images that end up with super black/dense areas in print, but look fine on the screen? This typically happens when I dodge and burn into selected areas of the photo by hand. I found that by not doing too much in one area helps or to do the majority of the adjustment to the overall photo, but this isn't always the best result. I check the image by sliding the middle LEVELS pointer to lighten everything to see what is too dark (then I put it back). Just wondering if there's a better way to do this. Again, this is a print issue. Thanks!
I usually do blend if with lvels, and it works fine, but I I completely forgot about this feature!!! thanks for the reminder :D
Thanks AronI've been using Lightroom with average results, this works better for me
Hi Phlearn....
Can we design a Brochure in Photoshop Or Indesign should be used for that ????
Thanks!!!!!!!!
Reply!!!!!
I am new to taking pictures and I am looking for a good editing software? I have a Nikon D5000 and D7200 what editing software would you recommend to use. Thanks
thank you :)
Hey Aaron, I was wonder if you could do a video about splitting a big body of water like a sea? I have some photo ideas that need this look. Thanks in advance if you can help out.
Thanks
when i move a low pixilated image to ahigher one or so i find the result pretty bad. wanna know the best way to blend two images and create shadows for an object
i love your tutorials guys :D is there btw some stuff on how to colorize black and white photos? it would be really interesting :)
is camera row effect the same tool? (I use to work with that to fix shadows)
Aaron just curious but could you adjust your shadows up then use blend if to blend the highlights back to where they were or bring up shadows then mask out the highlights to the original?
+Raymond Hamby i find that to be much more convenient :)
+Raymond Hamby I also think using curves/levels then masking that layer with "apply image" could get the similar results, but using sliders is tad more easy i suppose.
why the backrgoud layer shows me white instead of the pic shown in the vid?
That looks like Fashion Santa that was at the Yorkdale Mall in Toronto !!
BTW...a few ways you could do this, but I like that you introduce different parts of Photoshop ...they all may come in handy at some point !!
Hi Phlearnies,
one question bothers me for quite a time now: How do I remove that tiny little hair on a (girls) forearm (in a photograph)? I heard about some duplicating the layer method (but I’m sure there’s a more Aronesc way to do it)…
And the other thing is a little tip: every time I start to edit an image, I copy the basic layer and leave it invisible on top of all the other layers, so I can in an instant swap between before and after, without having to click alt/opt and selecting all the relevant layers anew when going back to editing.
But most of all: thanks for all your valuable and entertaining tutorials, they helped me a lot and brightened more than one day ;-)
Cheers
Michael
hello i have a question? How do you resize a large picture using photoshop and shrink it so you can use it for profile picture on whatsapp.? without losing resolution....take care
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Hey PhlearnyAaron, any info about contests coming up?
Could you do a tutorial on how to make a low key portrait (from a normally lit photo)
Any advantages using shadows/highlights over camera raw? filter in photoshop?even on jpeg images?
+Tomas Ramoska Yes, that is what I would like to know too.
I just bring up ACR when I need to tweak shadows and highlights
+Tomas Ramoska I don't think it is better. Just with curves you can edit several points to achieve the results you want. To me it is just about promoting these options. Editing RAW is always better because you just edit functions which are saved in an XMP file or in a database. Anytime you need to show your file the data source is read. Basically it is non destructive. As soon as you get into image editing you start to be in a destructive kind of processing. Pixels are coded in the file and that's.
But well RAW dev has its limits too so to make it short the best way is to do as much as possible in developping the RAW and fixing it in image edition software.
+Tomas Ramoska You are totally right, even Adobe recommends using ACR in their YT channel. They consider 'shadows/highlights' feature in PS itself as 'legacy'.
Could you do a tutorial on fantasy lightning and fog or mist, please
I'm not sure if this is a stupid question, but I always felt more than a little confused with the distinction between the concepts of luminance, luminosity and lightness, and how that applies to photo editing and color grading. I looked it up online, but the information is scattered and you can't find it all together in one place. I got even more confused when I tried to think of that in combination with the different blend modes. Any valuable inputs on that? I really don't know who else to ask.
I think it's the 100th time you cover that :0
Yet you do it better each time
Isn't it better to use camera raw or Lightroom for this so its non destructive?