The Canon Magazine 57
ABSTRACT REFLECTIONS
STEP 3 BOOST CONTRAST
Drag your Raw image into Photoshop CC
or Elements in order to open it into Adobe
Camera Raw – alternatively import the Raw
file into Lightroom and head over to the
Develop module. In either programs you’ll
have access to sliders on the right that let
you adjust the contrast. We went for a mono
conversion. For this effect, set Saturation to
-100, then push Contrast to +45 and Clarity
to +90 to add some punch. Next up, we
pulled the Highlights and Blacks down to
the left and increased the Shadows and
Whites by dragging them to the right to
expand the dynamic range. When you’ve
achieved some good punchy contrast hit
Open Image in Photoshop or go to
Photo>Edit In>Photoshop CC in Lightroom.
STEP 4 REMOVE SCRATCHES
The next step is to remove any little
scratches or dings in the metal to make sure
the spoon has a beautifully shiny mirror
finish. The easiest way to do this is to grab
the Spot Healing Brush tool from the toolbox
and use the square bracket keys (‘[‘ and ‘]’)
to resize your cursor. Make sure it’s only
slightly larger than needed to paint over the
distraction. Before you start editing your
photograph it’s best practice to hit Ctrl/
Cmd+J on your keyboard to duplicate your
layer so that you’re not working on the
original image. Then zoom in with Ctrl/
Cmd+Plus and paint over all of the little
imperfections in the metal to make it
perfectly prestine, which gives a much
more aesthetically pleasing end result.