I'm going to show you a great way to use photoshop to get images to come out of the shadows.
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Shut off the background layer. This saves it from damage and right now you don't need it.
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After selecting the top layer we need to remove the colour, so we are affecting the shadows and light. [Ctrl+Shift+U] or Image
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Next we need to invert the image so that we brighten the dark and darken the bright. [Ctrl+I] or Image
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Now we need to apply the effect to the layer below. We do this by adjusting the Layer Blend Mode to Overlay.
This will make our colour a little weird, but we'll fix that in the next step.
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Select Filter
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You'll have to adjust the slider to get the desired effect. I find somewhere between 20 and 70 works best. For this image I needed 70.
Try it on you images and see if it does make you images pop just a little more. Thanks for reading, any questions or comments will be answered below.
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