Exercise 17: Colours into tones 2

The aim of this exercise is to make practical use of channel adjustment to achieve a specific effect.  Choose one of the following targets:

·         A landscape in which you emphasise the depth (aerial perspective) by strengthening the visual effect of haze.

·         A portrait in which lightens the complexion without significantly altering the tones of the rest of the image.

·         A picture of a garden in which the green vegetation appears light in tone.

 
In addition to this, for comparison, also prepare the default black and white conversion offered by your software, for example, desaturate.  Print the results in pairs (default conversion and your conversion.
  
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Original Image

My original image was a portrait of a young Ethiopian girl who wanted some pictures for her book as she wanted to break into modelling. 

I wanted to compare the images side by side so I had to combine them in one file in Photoshop to get them to stay next to each other, see below:

I wanted to change Fartuun's skin tone to make it lighter so had to first select it by usine the magnetic selection tool and refining it in Quick Mask Mode.

Once I'd selected her face I used the sliders to adjust it to a much lighter colour

Darkened Complexion

Once I had successfully changed just the facial colour I wanted to change the original image to make Fartuun’s complexion darker, just to see what happened and here’s the results:

I've enjoyed this exercise as it made me think about some new areas that I haven't really used before.  One thing though, I've found that the key to changing pictures successful and without being obvious is very careful selection of the area to adjust.  Once I had mastered the Quick Mask it became much easier.