Have you ever  get this kind of problem? Is this problem really annoying you? if your answer is yes and you want to know how to fix this problem, please read my simple tutorial.In this tutorial we will learn how to fix backlight problem.

1. Open a backlight photo.

2.Duplicate photo (Ctrl+J).
3.Click Image->Adjustment->Shadow Highlight.

set the properties such below: (you must have experience to set the properties, each photo has different number to fix the shadow area and highlight area)

The result after step 3 is like this:

The result still disappointed regarding skin tone and the contrast, but it better than original photo

4. Increase contrast – you can do this by level, curve, brightness&contrast, etc – the result is like this: (maybe you can’t see much different because I just increase contrast a little)

5.  Correcting skin tone:

Change the skin tone by using curve adjustment – modify the RGB channel:

Apply masking so only the skin will be fixed by the curve:

I think the result from step 5 is good except the background and the object have different saturation – the background colors are very dull so we will fix this in the next step.

6. Correcting environment tone.

I use hue saturation adjustment to correct this problem – for this photo I increase the saturation by +40, the result is like this:

What a terrible result !? – oops we forget to add masking for hue saturation adjustment. After we create masking for this adjustment, the result is like this:

7. Fix contrast and white balance to mix the object and the environment – about correcting white balance

The result is like this:

8. Finalizing the photo – sharpening and noise reduction

I hope after you read this tutorial, you learn how to fix backlight photo.

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