Digital Camera World - UK (2019-10)

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http://www.digitalcameraworld.com OCTOBER 2019 DIGITAL CAMERA^89

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Lighten
the face
The image as
a whole is the right level of
brightness, but the model’s
face looks a little too dark
and slightly hazy. So I
apply a Radial Filter, which
is dragged out to roughly
the size of the face and
rotated to match the angle.
Once the guide is in place,
I increase Exposure to +0.25
to lighten the face. Whites
and Blacks are then set to
+10 and -10, essentially to
increase contrast. To finish
off, I set Clarity to +15.

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Controlled desaturation
The final technique is to apply desaturation: I use individual
colour channels to take more control than simply moving
the Saturation slider. I click on the HSL Adjustments tab, and then the
Saturation tab within. I set Reds to -15, then copy and paste this figure
into all of the other boxes so that all channels are set to the same
amount. Two channels are then further desaturated, with Yellows
set to -35 and Blues to -25.