TLR Tone Enhance

This is a creative image enhancement action set from The Light's Right Studio: a Photoshop action set that make it easy to adjust the tonal range of your digital images. TLR Tone Enhance is a Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3 action set that is also compatible with earlier versions of Photoshop. It is intended to be part of a future TLR Professional Photographic Effects Toolkit.

Some of the effects in TLR Tone Enhance use Layer Set/Groups in Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3. All use adjustment layers in order to work non-destructively with your image.

Enhance Exposure

You can easily adjust the exposure of your image in familiar photographic stops. Eight actions take your image from -1 stop to +1 stop in 1/4 stop increments. You can run the actions in series if more exposure compensation is required.

-1 Stop • -3/4 Stop • - 1/2 Stop • -1/4 Stop
+1/4 Stop • +1/2 Stop • +3/4 Stop • +1 Stop

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Enhance Contrast

There are five different sets of actions for adjusting contrast in TLR Tone Enhance. Each has three levels. Contrast Boost increases overall image contrast. Midtone Boost limits contrast enhancement to the middle tones. Highlight/Shadows Boost keeps contrast adjustments limited to the shadows and highlights. Punch Blacks and Punch Whites boost contrast in the extreme shadows and highlights respectively.

Contrast Boost 1 • Contrast Boost 2 • Contrast Boost 3

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Midtone Boost 1 • Midtone Boost 2 • Midtone Boost 3

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Highlights/Shadows Boost 1 • Highlights/Shadows Boost 2
Highlights/Shadows Boost 3

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Punch Whites • Punch Blacks

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Dodge & Burn

You can dodge and burn the highlights and shadows in the image easily with the actions in TLR Tone Enhance. The selection tools in the TLR Quick Selections action set are a natural complement for limiting the dodge and burn effects to portions of the image.

Dodge Highlights 1 • Dodge Highlights 2 • Dodge Highlights 3

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Dodge Shadows 1 • Dodge Shadows 2 • Dodge Shadows 3
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Burn Highlights 1 • Burn Highlights 2 • Burn Highlights 3

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Burn Shadows 1 • Burn Shadows 2 • Burn Shadows 3

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Current Version: 1.0d
Date: 10 February 2006
Size: 3 kb
Contents: Photoshop .atn file, ReadMe.txt

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