{"id":8461,"date":"2019-10-28T15:12:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/?p=8461"},"modified":"2019-10-28T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:13:05","slug":"adjusting-print-brightness-with-a-luminosity-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/adjusting-print-brightness-with-a-luminosity-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjusting print brightness with a luminosity mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When prints block up the shadows, but there clearly are details to be found. Tony Kuyper suggested that a luminosity mask would help. Follow the link for more details.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a Darks-1 luminosity mask of the unsharpened image.<\/li>\n<li>Sharpen the image using the normal sharpening method.<\/li>\n<li>Create a Levels (or Curves) adjustment layer at the top of the layer stack above the sharpening layer(s).<\/li>\n<li>Set the adjustment layer\u2019s blend mode to Screen.<\/li>\n<li>Apply the Darks-1 luminosity mask created in Step 1 as a layer mask to the adjustment layer.<\/li>\n<li>Lower the layer\u2019s opacity to between 25 and 50 percent.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tonykuyper.wordpress.com\/2019\/01\/23\/adjusting-print-brightness-with-a-darks-1-luminosity-mask\/\">Tony Kuyper writing for Good Light Journal<\/a>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When prints block up the shadows, but there clearly are details to be found. Tony Kuyper suggested that a luminosity mask would help. Follow the link for more details. Create a Darks-1 luminosity mask of the unsharpened image. Sharpen the image using the normal sharpening method. Create a Levels (or Curves) adjustment layer at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[537,13],"tags":[995],"class_list":{"0":"post-8461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-link","6":"category-linked","7":"category-tips","8":"tag-tip","9":"post_format-post-format-link","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FUJv-2ct","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}