Adjustment Layers for Shadow Balancing

Debi wrote Photoshop 911 with this problem of under exposure in her photographs:

 > Hi, I have a picture of my wedding reception.   
 > Becuase of the lighting around the room, the  
 > Can you tell me how to lighten it, without changing us?  
 > background of all the pictures look dark.   
 > I am a little confused on the layers.   
 > Then a duplicate layer where I did some adjustments  
 > What I have so far is the main layer that I did not  
 > do any changes to.   
 > to our skin (named skin).   
 > Thanks so much
 > Please tell me where I go from here to follow your steps.   

Concept: While the following does not use wedding pictures, the basic premise is the same. Areas of the photo are overly dark due to under exposure. You'll need to mask the 'good' portion of the image, and raise the levels in the dark portions.

 

Photoshop Madness for the Holidays

PHOTOSHOP MADNESS is a state of mind where you cannot control your urge to surf the web in search of outstanding Photoshop work... and all of a sudden it's dinner time! So we go surfing today to find some goodies, and we've indeed found quite a few.

Be careful what you click -- beware of malware and phishing sites We remind you, however, especially Windows users -- be careful what you click. There are malware, phishing stalker and predator links abundant in many of the replicated sites these days. Whatch those little popups in the text. Just stay on the tutorial / content paths and you'll be okay.

First, we'll introduce Andrea Austoni...

5 Useful Photoshop Effects

Special thanks to Andrea Austoni for posting this tutorial to the Photoshop 911 Tutorials page! Andrea, from Milano, Italy, now Krakow, Poland graduated from Politecnico di Milano university with a degree in Architecture. Starting in 3D art Andrea then branched out into identity, advertising and packaging -- now specializing in icon design and illustration, with a strong focus on realism, three-dimensionality and fun. See lots of bright, sincere design and visuals at the www.cutelittlefactory.com

5 Useful Photoshop Effects in 3 Easy Steps

In this fun tutorial Andrea will explain how to create 5 essential effects in 3 easy steps, using basic Photoshop tools. Useful for a range of situations, these effects work best when you don't have time to reach high quality standards. If you work in an agency you know how it goes -- these techniques are lifesavers! Andrea submits the following ...

 

Elements Plus - plugins

Independent author Andrei Doubrovski has announced Elements+ 1.0, his new enhancement patch for Adobe Photoshop Elements 8. Elements+ is a handy add-on that unlocks the undocumented advanced functions in Photoshop Elements featured in the latest versions of Photoshop.

Elements+ is JavaScript-based, so the script behavior will depend on current circumstances. The unleashed features can be accessed via dedicated dialog boxes that include undocumented commands and panels for exploring and using the hidden (officially unsupported) contents, such as paths, color channels, and more. The kit includes smart filters, vector masks, and many more advanced tools normally hidden under the hood.

Image Framer

Apparent Software's ImageFramer 2.42, is a very cool custom image framing utility for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, ImageFramer can apply photo-realistic frames to digital images, drawings or any original artwork. Users can add single frames (with multiple mats), watermarks, batch process several images at a time, as well as colorize or adjust Hue, Saturation and Brightness of the frames for maximum flexibility.

Image Framer