9/14/2023 0 Comments Fixing photos in photoshop![]() ![]() See Photoshop - Supported versions for complete details. ![]() Bug fixes are only provided for the current version. Note: Adobe provides technical support and security fixes for the current version and the prior version. In most cases, you'll be able to move it just a little bit to bring back the blacks. You can fix many problems by simply making sure that your Adobe software is up-to-date. ![]() You can try the Gaussian blur feature and then sharpen the filter. Luckily, this washed-out look doesn't happen nearly as often now as it did back in Lightroom 3, thanks to the new process version. Sharpening is the best tool for fixing heavily blurred images. The way to get rid of that washed-out look is simply to push a little bit of blacks into the image by clicking-and-dragging the Blacks slider to the left just a little bit (here, I dragged it to -34). Keep an eye out for it as you drag, and if you do see a lot, go to the Detail panel to reduce the luminance and color noise. If an image has noise in it, it's usually in the shadow areas, so if you do open the shadows a lot, any noise gets amplified. If you do crank up the Shadows slider pretty high (like I did here), then the photo may start to look washed out (as seen here), but in the next step, we'll fix that with just one simple move. Luckily, you don't get that same heavy-handed look in the current version of Lightroom. Back in Lightroom 3, you didn't want to drag the Fill Light slider (the Shadows slider's lesser-quality LR3 counterpart) that far, because it made the image look funky. To open up the foreground, click-and-drag the Shadows slider to the right (here, I dragged to around +79). Before we fix the backlit problem, increase the Exposure a little to see if that helps (I dragged it over to +0.45 without blowing out the highlights), then drag the Highlights slider to the left to -49 to lower the brightest highlights in the overly bright sky (hey, it helps). While I was looking at the scene, everything looked fine because our eyes instantly balance the exposure of the scene, but unfortunately, our camera doesn't-it exposed for just the sky, leaving the building in shadows. In this image, the sky looks properly exposed, but the building is totally in the shadows. After completing this step, now we can go back and make changes to the filter as desired. Convert it to a smart filter by going up to Filter in the menu bar and selecting Convert to Smart Filters. The Shadows slider (which replaced the Fill Light slider in the Basic panel), does the best job of fixing this problem of anything I've ever seen, but there is one little thing you need to add. Hit Ctrl + J ( Command + J on a Mac) to duplicate the background layer. I think it's so common because the human eye adjusts for backlit situations so well that, to our naked eye, everything looks great, but the camera exposes much differently and that shot that looked very balanced when you took it, really looks like what you see below. One of the most common digital photography problems is photos where the subject is backlit, so it is almost a black silhouette. Excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers ![]()
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