okay how you do this? - REPLY

[slartibartfast]

As the original thread seems to have been locked for some unknown reason I'll reply in this one.

First open up your picture in PS, in this case Spangles the clown.



Then select Layer>New Fill Layer>Solid Colour... to create a new layer filled with whatever colour you want, in this case black.

Then, in the layers palette, change the fill or opacity of that layer to acheive what you want. In this example I used a fill of 81%.



Simple.

[incognito™]

roflmao... cheers matey... just made a new post coz I had closed the original lol...


thanks a lot matey much appreciated..

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only wanted to know so I could make an Abi Titmus wallpaper for me desktop

[Lighty]

cant you also use layer mask with gradinet fill tool to do similar things?
I think im not sure Slarti knows mucho best

[incognito™]

at the end of the day it works

[slartibartfast]

cant you also use layer mask with gradinet fill tool to do similar things?

Indeed you can. Here's one using a radial layer mask.



There's normally a multitude of methods you can use in PS to acheive the same outcome, but I prefer the KISS method, keep it simple stupid.

Layer masks and gradient fills, oooh I see you've been reading up.

[Lighty]

Yup getting better all the time as "The Beatles" would say.

KISS I like it

[oE]

Question - if I had a pic that looks like the one above is there any way to reverse the process and lighten it ?

my brother had a load of holiday snaps that came out far to dark - wonder if there is a way to restore them ?

oE.

[slartibartfast]

if I had a pic that looks like the one above

You've been taking pictures of Spangles the clown !

But seriously.

You can lighten dark photo's to a certain degree, but it depends how badly they're underexposed as to how successful it will be.

Have you got any sort of imaging software, paint shop pro, photoshop etc ?

[oE]

I got photoshop - just not shure how to do this.

oE.

[slartibartfast]

There's loads of different ways of doing it, you could use levels, curves, shadow/highlight etc but here's a fairly easy tutorial that might help:

LINK