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Illuminating the model using a flash+softbox combo would have solved this problem during the shoot. In the starting photo you can see right away that the model is poorly visible and the background is quite bright due to the light. We’ll be exploring brighten-and-darken retouching through the example of this photograph converted from RAW: Our starting photo after conversion from RAW. And what, meanwhile, should be suppressed.

Think about which parts of it should stand out. The first thing you’ll need to do, is to analyze the photo. But just as with any other retouching, you’ll need to work carefully so you don’t overshoot. You’ll be using selections to get light into the parts of your photo that were too dark before. To learn about work with selections and how they’re displayed in Zoner Photo Studio, read Become a Smarter Editor-Master Masks.

Work with selections (and the mask display mode) is the foundation for any kind of retouching in Zoner Photo Studio. What’s the answer? We’ll show how to fix the photos that come from these situations: you simply brighten and darken problem areas to retouch them.

And you might also have too much light in places where you don’t need it. If you mainly shoot using natural light, then sooner or later you’ll definitely run into a subject that lacks light. And today’s edit will be about light too. In today’s article, we’ll show you how you can make a photo’s subject shine using local brightening and darkening. Sometimes you need to highlight your subject to make sure they’re attention-getting and that it’s immediately clear what’s important in the photo.

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