When taking photos of people, we often encounter this situation. The background is well-lit, but the face of the person cannot get enough illumination. The final photo is like Figure 1, where the face of the person is underexposed. How to make a character’s face light up? If you use fool-proof software to adjust the face exposure, when the face lights up, the background may be overexposed and the photo will be ruined. Below, we introduce how to use PS to correct the exposure of the person's face in such photos and restore the true appearance of the person while ensuring that the background exposure is normal (see Figure 2 for the result after fine adjustment).
Original picture???
After PS
1. Simple but imperfect facial brightening techniques
The Shadow/Highlight command is a tool used to quickly deal with photo exposure problems. In the adjustment command menu of PS, we can find the shadow/highlight command at the lower position. By using this command, we can quickly adjust the exposure of the face. Open the Shadow/Highlight command dialog box, and we can see two command sliders in the command dialog box, namely Shadow and Highlight. They control the brightness of dark and bright parts of the picture respectively. The face of the character in Figure 1 is severely underexposed, so we move the shadow slider to the right to increase the brightness value of the dark parts. We set the shadow value to 50% (Figure 3) and look at the final result. The facial details of the character have been restored. At the same time, the correct exposure of the background has not changed much, and the problem of character exposure has been corrected.
Tip: The shadow/highlight command can also achieve more precise adjustments. Check "Show more options" at the bottom of the dialog box, and we can open the advanced command window (Figure 4) for more detailed adjustments. We can control the adjustment range of shadows or highlights by adjusting the amount, use the tone width and radius to control the range of applied adjustments, use color correction to adjust the tone of the photo, and adjust the midtone contrast to enhance the contrast of the gray areas in the picture. .
