Hard Light Effects in Photoshop - (PSD Box)

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. Resources: This tutorial can be followed in Adobe Elements as well. 0:00 Intro 0:51 Making the background 3:17 Background adjustments 7:49 Adding the model 8:54 Shadow masking in Photoshop 13:07 The hard light effect using dodge & burn 20:50 Hard light effect effacement with filters 23:49 The Shadows/Highlights filter for HDR effect 25:56 Sharpening Model stock image by Marcus Ranum: Background image by Julia Starr: Sky stock image by Pelleron Stock: Subscribe and get t