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When we usually go out to shoot, when we encounter bad weather or bad light angle, we will find that our photos do not look transparent enough and have some foggy feeling.

This kind of insufficiently transparent picture will directly affect the quality of the photo, making the originally wonderful scene look unattractive.

However, there is no need to worry about this situation. Today, I would like to recommend a practical tool-curve.

Curve is an important tool in post-editing software such as PS and LR, which can control the shadow, midtone, highlight and other parts of the picture respectively, so that the exposure performance of the photo is closer to the effect we want.

Generally speaking, when our photos are opaque, in many cases it is due to air problems or light problems.

If it is due to air problems, such as haze, etc., this situation is also very difficult to deal with in the later stage. We can appropriately improve the contrast, clarity and de-obscurity to improve the picture effect.

If it is because of the light problem, then the curve tool can be useful, and the opaque picture will have some problems, such as highlight overflow, no detail in the dark, weak midtone contrast, and so on.

The highlight overflows so that the picture doesn't look transparent enough. Then we can import the photos into the PS and LR tools and into the curve tool.

The original film looks gray enough and the penetration curve tool can be roughly divided into three parts, the left part controls the shadow part, the middle part controls the middle tone, and the right part controls the highlight part

For opaque photos, we can raise the leftmost end of the shadow part appropriately, restore some details, and avoid the shadow being completely black.

We can pull down the end of the highlight on the far right to avoid excessive overflow of the highlight and restore the details of the highlight.

For the midtone, we can create two more endpoints at the curve's 1x4 and 3x4, and lower the endpoint at 1x4 and increase the endpoint at 3x4, so that the midtone also has contrast, and the overall picture will look much more transparent.

At this time, the curve as a whole will show an "S" shape, and you can remember this shape, which essentially enhances the contrast of the picture, but it is easier to use because it can control different parts separately and is more flexible.

The contrast is enhanced after the revision, and it seems that many of this "S" curve is widely used in the later stage, so it is also specially recommended to you.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: play some Photography (ID:wakexiao), by AGER

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