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Exposure Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn to change the exposure of your photos, as well as change the exposure of only a section of your photo.

To start, open the photo below on Photoshop: Dark Buddha


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Notice how the foreground of the photo is very dark comparing to the background? Let’s fix that.

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First, you will duplicate the background layer, so that there are two layers on the image.

Make sure the History is open. You can find History under Window -> History.


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Now, go to Image -> Exposure, and increase the exposure until you find it pleasing. I thought that around 3.5 or 4 was a good number. Say OK.

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Now you have two layers; one with a high exposure and one with a low exposure. We will be working on the top layer, high exposure, but to make sure we save a copy in case we make a mistake, we will copy the high exposure layer.

Now, click the eye symbol on one of the exposure layers. This will make it invisible. See picture.

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With the eraser set on a brush with hardness zero, select a size brush of about 65. This will be used to erase most of your background.

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You probably will want to decrease your brush size to get close to the nooks and crannies.
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To blend the horizon line, you will want to decrease your eraser brush opacity to 50% and to a few passes over the background, to blend the trees in.

Your image should look like the one below. 


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To flatten your image, you should go to the right of the Layers menu again, and select “Flatten Image”

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This is your new image.

Go to File -> Save as -> Buddha.



As you can see below, there is a big improvement between your original image and your final image.


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Now, try this technique with one of your own photos!

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