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Exposing Tutorial

July 6, 2008

This Exposing Tutorial will explain how to overexpose and underexposed an image.

Often images aren’t quite exposed correctly - in this images below, you can see an underexposed image, along with an overexposed one. In Photoshop it’s very easy to alter the exposure on any image, it’s just knowing how!

Below I have attempted to explain what tool to use and the easiest way of using it. If however you struggle and would like some help, please do leave a comment below or contact us.

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Example

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Exposing Tutorial - The Steps


  • Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial, if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
  • Once that’s done, go into -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Brightness/Contrast…
  • The best way to find out what settings to use with these Brightness/Contrast settings, is to move the two scroll bars to the left and to the right, but to start off with I’ll give you a bit of an idea of what to do. But before we start, make sure the Preview box is ticked.
  • If your photograph is too dark and you want to brighten it, changing the brightness will probably help, you can go from 0 to +150, it’s likely you’ll end up with something in between that, but you can also go up to +150 if need be.
  • If it’s too light, then do the opposite with the brightness, go from 0 to -150. So to make it brighter, you move the brightness scroll bar to the right, to make it darker, move it to the left.
  • As for the Contrast scroll bar… unlike the brightness scroll bar, it only goes to either -50 or up to +50. The constract scroll bar basically adds I suppose depth, or I guess you could call it a type of glow. If you move it to the far left (-50), it would take away all the glow/depth to your image, it you move it to the far right (+50), it’ll add a lot of depth/glow to it, or you could move it to somewhere in between. But basically with this, you just need to fiddle with it until you come up with something you like.

  • Anddd….. you’re done! I hope this tutorial was helpful, however if it was a little confusing and you’d like some help then feel free to leave a comment below regarding this Exposing Tutorial.

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Photoshop Overexposed Color Effect

June 29, 2008

This Photoshop Overexposed Color Effect Tutorial will explain how to create the below effect.

Photographs alone are very pretty, but sometimes you didn’t quite get the right effect and wish it was a bit sharper, deeper, more overexposed… all sorts of things. With this photograph I wanted to add a deeper coour to the blossom and twigs, but not so much sky and background. I’m using adjustment layers in this tutorial as well as colour layers and it’s a great effect for many other photographs.

Once you have a few of these effects in your bag, you can easily try them out on your photographs, some work better than others - the best thing about this is, it isn’t too hard at all.

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Before

Before the effect

After

After the effect.

Photoshop Overexposed Color Effect - The Steps


  • First of all, I suggest you download the image I am using - right click on it and save image
  • Secondly, I wanted to sharpen the image a bit - I decided to use the high pass filter to do that. So, duplicate your layer - CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J - then go to your layers palette and change the layer mode (it’s the drop down menu displaying "Normal") to "Overlay"
  • Now for the high pass filter. Go -> Filter -> Other -> High Pass (filter is along side the File, Edit, Image tool bar) - change your high pass radius to 6.0 then press OK and then press CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + E to merge the layers.
  • Now duplicate your newly merged layer. CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J - change the layer mode from "Normal" to "Screen" (to do that go to the layers Palette and locate the drop down menu which displays "Normal")
  • Now go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Gradient Map select the default gradient, change the colours so that the first one is 6d573f and the second is just white. It’ll look like this. Then go to the layers palette and change the layer mode to Multiply
  • Now go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Hue/Saturation - alter the saturation to +37 then press OK
  • Next, go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears leave the Opacity at 100% and change the "Normal" drop down menu to "Soft Light" - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to d88bf2 - then press OK

  • This time go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 71% and change the "Normal" drop down menu to "Color Burn" - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to 95c9f4 - then press OK:laugh:
  • Next, go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears leave the Opacity at 100% and change the "Normal" drop down menu to "Soft Light" - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to e5f79a - then press OK
  • Now you need to download this curves file. Once you’ve saved it to your computer, open Photoshop again, then go -> Layer -> New Layer Adjustment -> Curves -> Load -> Locate your file -> press OK and OK again
  • Right, now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 59% and change the "Normal" drop down menu to "Color Burn" - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to 95c9f4 - then press OK
  • Next, go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 41% and change the "Normal" drop down menu to "Overlay - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to e5f79a - then press OK
  • Next, go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears leave the Opacity at 100% and change the "Normal" drop down menu to "Soft Light" - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to d88bf2 - then press OK
  • And that’s it. It’s pretty basic but useful. You can easily alter colours I use and also change the layer more + opacity, it really makes a difference. If you have any questions regarding this Photoshop Overexposed Color Effect Tutorial then just drop me a line in the below comment box. I’ll happily reply. :yay:

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