San's Graphic Blog » light http://www.sanweng.com Photoshop Tutorial and Graphic Blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:26:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Photoshop special effects through Curve adjustment Layers http://www.sanweng.com/tutorial/photoshop-special-effects-through-curve-adjustment-layers/ http://www.sanweng.com/tutorial/photoshop-special-effects-through-curve-adjustment-layers/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 01:52:48 +0000 San http://sanweng.com/?p=58 photoshop special effects tutorial A Video tutorial on how to add special effects with lightning and adjustment layers.

This is a 2 part video tutorial that teach you how to add special effects and lightning through adjustment curve. Here is the original photo

photoshop effects before

and here is the after

Photoshop effects final

Please leave a comment if you have any question regarding this video and let me know what needs to change so I can improve on future videos, thanks!!

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Photoshop Tutorial - Complex Color Correcting With Adjustment - Amazing videos are here- You can select Adjustment Layers in the layer pallet, it looks like a circle that is half white and half black.- The white box next to the adjustment layer is the mask, clicking on you allows you to paint the mask. Anything that shows pure white has full effect of the adjustment layer and everything that is pure black has no effect.

- I combined three different layers, one to correct the dark area, one to correct the light area and the last one to make an overall adjustment.

- Double clicking on the adjustment layer itself will open the adjustment dialog again, this is call non-destructive editing, you are not stuck with the setting even after you press ok.

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