Digital Camera World - UK (2020-03)

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Add a refined
vignette
For the final step, I want to make
the model stand out from the background.
I select the Radial Filter, which is dragged
out with the Mask active
so I can check that the
model is unaffected
by the adjustments.
Exposure is set to -1.25
to darken; Highlights to
-60; Shadows to +30,
to maintain detail in this
area; -and Saturation
to -60. To reduce the
sharpness of the outer
area of the shot, Texture
and Sharpness are
set to -100.

3

Darken

background

The burnout at

the top of the frame is hugely

distracting, but rather than

crop it out and risk messing

up the composition, I select the

Graduated Filter, then hold down

the Shift key to lock the tool while

dragging a short grad for a hard

effect. I then reduce Exposure to

-0.35 and Highlights to -80. The

grad filter is just catching the

top of the model’s hand, so I

click on the Range Mask and

set it to Luminance before

increasing the left slider to 80.

FINISHED IMAGE