PHOTO CLINIC
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How Dave can enhance his
landscape image in Photoshop
Boost the image
I opened the JPEG in ACR (right click in
Bridge and choose Open in Camera Raw),
where I’ve warmed up the Temperature
(+11), then boosted Exposure (+0.20) and
Contrast (+18), dropped Highlights (-23),
and boosted Shadows (+23) and Whites
(+25). I also nudged up Clarity (+10) and
Saturation (+18).Control the sky
Dave didn’t use an ND grad for this
shot, but as I’m using ACR I can
quickly add a grad effect with the
Graduated Filter tool to pull back
the bright sky. I’ve drawn a gradient
from the top of the sky to half-way
down the image, then set Exposure
to -1.50, Contrast to +3, Highlights to
-43 and Shadows to -16.Cloning to clean up
Clicking Open brings the tweaked
image into the main Photoshop editor.
Here I’ve used the Clone Stamp tool to
remove the clumps of distracting
undergrowth at the bottom of the
frame, before sharpening the image
with the Unsharp Mask filter.STEP BY STEP