CS5 Photoshop Editing Tutorial: How to brighten dark image remove harsh shadows model out background

Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/temperatesage/ If you would like to work along with me on the same images you can purchase a pack of stock images with this image in it here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/16263692... We also sell our high quality textures, backgrounds, and overlays here. Enjoy! Any edits you make can also then be used for your personal portfolios (facebook, blog, deviantart, personal website). --------- This edits challenge rating is: Hard This edit is of my image known as, "Water Rising", located here on deviantart: http://temperate-sage.deviantart.com/... Modeling and image work by Harmony Sage, also known as Temperate-Sage. In this beauty image retouch I will show you how to take a low light harshly shadowed blue/cyan image and show you how to light it up and give it a slightly more golden and glowing look. This image comes from my "Denim Princess" photo series and features a high fashion full length denim ball gown. This Jean Dress was an excellent for photography and made for some really fun images. This image besides back lit fixing also helps with model retouch and fantastical color correction in a forest. There is always a better photo hiding under the surface and this how to will help you find it. =) I edit in Adobe Photoshop CS5, there are tool equivalents for most of the things I use in other softwares such as GIMP. In case you missed them, here are some of the main tool paths I used in this tutorial: Image - Adjustments - Levels Image - Adjustments - Curves Image - Adjustments - Selective Color Image - Adjustments - Color Balance Image - Adjustments - Brightness and Contrast Tool Bar - Heal Brush - Content Aware Tool Bar - Burn - (midtones and darks) Tool Bar - Dodge - (darks, midtones and brights) Tool Bar - Lasso Tool Tool Bar - Paint Brush Tool Bar - saturation brush Key Board Short Cuts: ctlr + -/+ : Zoom out W : magic wand tool Ctlr + [ : make brush smaller Ctlr + ] : make brush larger ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For business inquiries please contact: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Watch one of these videos next! Wonderland Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Pj5... Ocean Sunset Fashion Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ewc... Rose Gown Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT0QV... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am a photographer/retoucher and dressmaker living in Portland, OR. I have a passion for fairytale, fantasy, and mythical aesthetics and want to help others find that touch in their works as well! Outside of the arts, I have a love of natural sciences and the outdoors in general. With these passions combined, I like to take my shoots and projects to the great outdoors.