*great for learning about nuanced lighting, natural lighting, and plating. Here are three of the food photography books I cannot live without:ġ – Hélène Dujardin’s Plate to Pixel (and here blog: Tartlette) See tips #4 and #5 for these tutorials (links below).Īs always, you can “hit the books” as they say to learn more about these five tips and tricks. Time to add color pop filters and enhance sharpness. Your image’s exposures and blow outs are now fixed. This hides the layer and turns off the red highlighting. The image will suddenly become clearer, keeping fixed blowouts in tact and softening harsh edges that may have occurred in the last step.ġ0 – Now, click the icon next to the top “Color Fill 1” layer in your layers history panel. Drag the right-side of the arrow tab all the way back to the righthand side of the underlying layer bar. Take the white arrow tab on the righthand side and move it all the way to the left until as much fo the red “blow outs” disappear as possible (note: some blow outs may not be capable of being resolved):ĩ – Then, hit “option” and click (or, “option” + click on Mac, “alt” + click on Windows) on the white arrow. Like this solid color layer, you’ll want to adjust the “underlying layer” using the arrows at the bottom of this box. ![]() To do so, right click on the “Levels 1” layer and select “blending options”:Ĩ – A new box will pop up that looks similar to the red layer’s blending options. Reverse the two sliders for “underlying layer.” Here’s what they will look like when reversed (notice the sudden red spots in your image below?).ħ – At this point, PhotoShop is highlighting where all of the blow outs occur, and you can fix these spots by adjusting your “levels” layer in the layers history panel. Note that your “start point” includes a white tab on the right and a black tab on the left: Here, you’ll want to reverse the black and white sliders in the “underlying layer” section. Select “blending options” at the top of the drop-down box:Ħ – In the new box that pops up, look at the bottom (“Blend If”) section. You’ll know you’re right clicking on the correct layer because the box next to your cursor will be red. Right click on the top box under your layers history that represents the red colors layer you just added. ![]() Here’s an easy fix in Photoshop: correcting blow outs using the “Layers” Feature:ġ – Add a solid color or “fill layer” – right click on the “Fill/Adjustment Layer” icon at the bottom of your screen – this looks like a half black, half white circle:Ģ – Scroll to the top of the box that pops up and select “Solid Color”:ģ – When the box asks that you “pick a solid color,” select the brightest red with your icon (merely click on it and hit “ok”):Ĥ – Now, you’ll see an entirely red screen because you’ve simply placed a layer of red on top of your image:ĥ – From here, you’ll want to adjust fill levels. I’ve pointed out a few areas where the blow outs are especially harsh. Pictured: blow outs are the areas of extreme lighting or “white” in the image above. Not only would there be no digital information to be printed in this part of the image, but it also messes with white balance and photo composition. Well, blow outs pose a particular problem if you were to go to print. ![]() Sometimes this looks pretty cool and you might be aiming for an over-exposed effect, but most of the time (as with visible, useful food photography), it poses a problem. “Blow outs” is a slang term that refers to an area where whites and exposure are so bright, they’ve literally been “blown out” and no data is shown (just white, bright light). Fixing exposure is important, but it also creates (or encourages) some lighting problem-blow outs.
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