The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

60. JASON ON A BIKE

YOU MAY REMEMBER this picture of Jason on a bike from chapter 7, when we used the Content-Aware Fill and Scale tools to fill in the background and remove the tire marks (Figure 60.1). Let’s go ahead and finish the image.

1. 1 Start by creating a new adjustment layer for exposure and increasing the exposure quite a bit. Invert the mask to hide everything, and then brush in the exposure change only in the top and bottom areas of the picture, so that the entire background is white (Figure 60.2).
2. 2 Next, create a Curves adjustment layer, and then click on the center on the curve and drag it downward to make everything darker (Figure ...