Strengthening Highlights
In this stage, I return to highlighting from the upper left hand corner
of the picture. Using my airbrush tool, with a pure white set at 30%, I
highlight areas I previously highlighted with the light pink. Since this
highlight is more intense, it shouldn't completely cover the light pink
areas, but just accent them. The highlights don't have to be flat areas
of color - you can see on his cheek, which is a large flat area of the
picture, I've used three separate lines of white highlight below the eye
to give the cheek some texture.
By strengthening the light highlights, you offset the intensity of the
backlighting, and increase the contrast of the whole picture. By working
from black (boarders) to white (highlights) with lots of intense color
between, you bring the subject forward. I have a pretty loud background
for this picture, and at the
beginning, you can see that he kind of faded into the clouds. But now,
he jumps out quite a bit more.
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