Enhance your images with well-placed light
Whether you're retouching an underexposed image or you simply want to add a bit of light to an image, Photoshop is the perfect tool. By making broad lighting adjustments to an image, and then using the History Brush tool to paint in specific areas of light, you can quickly alter the way the image appears. This technique is great for creating faux focal points in images, as well as for detailed photo retouching, as demonstrated in Figure A. Let's take a closer look.
Figure A1.
Figure A2.
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