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[pauln]

A new one from me with a tutorial. I've added the final image because the video quality isn't very good

 

Low key portrait:

 

[kev7d]

Thanks for the tutorial Paul. Really useful. I would never have thought about using the techniques that you have shown in Adobe Camera Raw. 

 

Good image result too!

[Paul]

That's a great tutorial Paul - giving that a go, and post results on my attempts!

 

Thanks for the video - excellent instructions.

 

Paul.

[pauln]

It would be good to see the results if anyone has a go. If anyone would like some files to work with a have plenty

[ChrisLumix]

Very good and clear tutorial. I'd give it a go, except I don't work with ACR - couldn't you do all that in Photoshop alone? After all, it has all the Shadows/Highlights/Contrast/Levels etc you could possibly want in Adjustments. Just thinking aloud..

 

(New pronunciation of "Adobe" by the way - I've not heard it pronounced like that before!)

[pauln]

Yes in theory you could, you could substitute the adjustment brush for a black brush at 0 opacity

[ChrisLumix]

Yes in theory you could, you could substitute the adjustment brush for a black brush at 0 opacity

 

0 opacity? That wouldn't show anything. Perhaps you meant 0 Hardness, i.e. full Softness? I could see how that would work.

[pauln]

Yes sorry mate I meant hardness

[Korky]

Thanks, Paul - You've certainly shown me a few things about ACR that I wasn't aware of.

 

Korky 

[ChrisLumix]

I not only followed it, I discovered that I could use ACR on existing JPEGs - it's not just for RAW!

 

The one thing I couldn't work out - ACR was available from Bridge when I first opened the image, but it wasn't there in the Filters menu of CS6 when I came to try the "ACR endgame" bit. I wonder why that is?

[pauln]

I use ps cc and the raw filter is in the filter tab under raw filter it should be the same for cs6 as that was the last stand alone adobe made and the most up to date

[pauln]

If it isn't there then you could use the adjustments tab and choose your shadows and highlight tweaks from there

[colinb]

cracking image Paul, and I will try the tutorial at a later time, but very much appreciate you posting it up.

[pauln]

Your welcome, I promised some of my page followers I would do one so I thought someone here might like a try too