New Technique: Changing Lighting, and Selective Color

New Technique:  Changing the Lighting

Hotkey: Cntrl - L

This tool can be used to make the lights lighter, and the darks darker. It gives a graph of where the selection falls in the lighting category.

This can be done in a layer, so the best way to change an area is to cut it out with the lasso tool, and paste it on another layer, then mess with the lighting.


New Technique: Selective Color:

Layer - > Adjustments -> Selective Color

Hotkey: Cntrl - U

Much like the light tool, this tool can be used to change the individual colors in an area. So a selection can be made more red, or more blue. Very useful for fine tweaking an image.