Focus Effect - Levels Part 3
Software : Photoshop CS3
Level : Advance

Concept: The lesson is designed using Adobe Photoshop. We have used selections, different combination of image editing tools and filters for most of the effects. Photoshop comes up with lots of the options and scope for experiment is much more than you can imagine. We wish to encourage you to use different options and tools to get better output. The lessons and techniques described need to be followed as a guideline to achieve the effect.

1. Open Photoshop. Open the image saved in the last lesson where the selection is copied as new layer.

2. Select the background layer.

Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels

Click OK.

In the Output Levels, drag the black slider to the right to 150. The background becomes faint. Click OK.

3. Double click on layer thumbnail to open the Levels dialogue box again. Drag the black slider back to zero. This time, drag the white slider to the left to 100. The image becomes dark. Click OK.

4.Double click on layer thumbnail to open the Levels dialogue box again. Drag the white slider to its original position to 255. Now drag the gray slider from the Input Levels towards right to .20. The image becomes dark and it also increases the contrast. Click OK.

5. We will try some effects using Hue/Saturation in the next lesson.