Adjusting Shadows And Light - Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 Tutorial

Adjusting shadows and light

Adjust color and tonality using the Smart Brush tools
Apply the Smart Brush tools
About Levels adjustments
Improve shadow and highlight detail
Adjust shadows and brightness using Levels
Adjust brightness and contrast in selected areas
Quickly lighten or darken isolated areas
Quickly saturate or desaturate isolated areas
Adjust color and tonality using the Smart Brush tools
The Smart Brush tool and the Detail Smart Brush tool apply tonal and color adjustments to specific areas of a photo. Certain effects can also be
applied using these tools. You simply pick a preset adjustment and apply the correction. Both tools automatically create adjustment layers. This
feature offers you flexibility in working with your photos because the original image layer is not altered. You can go back and tweak the
adjustments and no image information is discarded.
When you apply the Smart Brush tool, it makes a selection based on color and texture similarly. The adjustment is simultaneously applied to the
selected area. You can adjust shadows, highlights, colors, and contrasts. Apply colors of the objects in your image, add textures, apply various
photographic effects.
Smart Brush tool applying an adjustment selection
1. Select the Smart Brush tool.
2. Select an effect from the preset drop-down in the Tools Options bar, and then drag your mouse on the objects in the image to
which you want to apply the effect.
You can apply various effects and patterns using smart brush from the available preset options.
Available presets
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