An experiment to enhance subject lighting

[saby]

Seems real live color , i prefer that glow what U got at first so i suggest a desaturated, boosted gamma soft light layer,with a high blur to get it back

saby

[duwayne]

Saby - Here is a second image that I used your Curves method to create the mask. No other adjustments were made. I think it's a great improvement over using the Threshold layer. Have you tried it on other images?

[saby]

Hi Duw, i like this above

Here you are some, at this kind of lightning the curves or treshold method are equvivalent. I think ultimately we should use both method curves for the detailed lights and threshold for the glow what is really great

saby

[duwayne]

Saby - Here's another one with natural sunlight using the Curves approach. I wanted to clear up something. After creating the mask with Curves and pasting them into the highlights and shadows layer masks, I am still applying a Gaussian blur to each mask of about 30. I think this accounts for the "glow". Without the Gaussian blur, the affect is harsher.

[saby]

What blur I've used, was about 15%. It could be slim

saby