The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

62. FIRE IN ST. LUCIA

I SHOT THIS picture of a woman holding fire bottles on a beach in St. Lucia (Figure 62.1). I love the look I got by using the flames as the sole light source, but the image is a little dark and there are some distracting elements in the background. Let’s go ahead and fix these issues.

Figure 62.1 The flames provide the only source of light in this image.

1. 1 We’ll start in Camera Raw, where we’ll increase the exposure and move the Shadows slider to the right to get a little bit more detail in the shot (Figure 62.2).

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