On 12 May 2004 at 19:13, Andre Langevin wrote:

> I found that with contrasty high speed film, under-exposed parts of 
> the subject (here, the face, which is the most important part of the 
> photo) sometimes have low contrast so they can be lightened with 
> success using a mix of contrast and luminosity boost.  The tough part 
> is doing it without getting a "clear cut" effect.  I do this by 
> adding 7-8% contrast and/or brightness at the time and selecting the 
> part to work on with a slighly different border each time.
> 
> But there must be other techniques to do thais without much trouble...

Using deep feathering of the mask edges can help.


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