Intro to Painting with Light with Photoshop 7, CS or CS2

[Frank Lopes]

A fairly simply technique to add "punch" to an image by enriching the colors, deepening the shadows and brightening the highlights. All done without touching the original image. [details]

[miguel]

frank, excellent tutorial - thanks - i've been working on a couple of images with it and they really look great.

why not enter it in the tutorial contest?

[Flora]

Great Tutorial Frank!!

If this is an entry for our new Tutorial Contest, I would suggest you post a link to it in the Contest Page

Originally Posted by Doug Nelson

Tangent:
It occurs to me that is someone were to volunteer to reply here posting the URLs of tutorials submitted within the contest period and edit it occasionally to update the list, that would be a very good thing

[Frank Lopes]

I did... At least I think I did...

Originally Posted by Flora

Great Tutorial Frank!!

If this is an entry for our new Tutorial Contest, I would suggest you post a link to it in the Contest Page

[RAitch]

Until now, I've never really used Colour Burn and Colour Dodge (on purpose). I always stuck to my ol' faithful modes.

Seeing this technique, I have to add this trick into my bag.
Thanks. Really nice effect and approach.

[cspringer]

There is also one that works great for black and white but you can combine the two.
One of the benefits of this method is you can PWL in color...i.e., use an orange on landscapes or click the skin and PWL.
The Shadow layer really helps the drama.

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...?highlight=PWL

combining the two
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=13703467

[2ndstp]

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You have left out some important steps to your light painting tutorial. Would you mind taking the time to review your directions. Thank you

[gho64]

Thank You Frank,

Great tutorial and very detail information for anyone to learn.

Hersul

[ISeek]

I have been trying PWL for a week now and it works sometimes but not all the times specially with people in it.
You said...look for richer colors and brighter colors...how do I determine that when a photo has people in it?