Hard Light Effect (Video Journal)

This is the first live tutorial I recorded so I had no idea what I will end up with. Basically I wanted to show how to get a high contrast hard light effect in Photoshop, almost HDR looking. I wanted to keep things realistic so I used the contrast masking technique to keep the original shadows of the model. This tutorial can be followed in Adobe Elements as well.



Model stock image by Marcus Ranum: mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/
Background image by Julia Starr: night-fate-stock.deviantart.co…
Sky stock image by Pelleron Stock: pelleron-stock.deviantart.com/

For the exact links to the stock images go here: www.psdbox.com/tutorials/hard-…