Now compare your layer mask to my layer mask, and see if you can notice the itty bitty teensy tiny difference.
By "itty bitty teensy tiny" I mean HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't worry about that layer yet! Just get the Levels layer sorted out, so that the wall touching the tip of his hair is the same colour as the wall touching the rest of the hair. That's all that matters.
The gradient layer is for the wall!!!! After you've balanced the colour around the hair.
As I told you, the gradient layer will go instead of the Color Fill layer that I used.
1-5 are correct. After step 5, the photo should be very very bright.
6 is correct.
7 is NOT. There is no involvement for the gradient tool for this photo. Brush tool only.
Hi Cindy, here's the PSD.
I've used simple Solid Color layer where you will use a Gradient layer instead, but importantly, I want you to see the Levels layer.
So far so good.
The question is, should we remove the texture from the parts of the blanket where it's visible? I mean, do you feel it's too obvious that there are some textured parts and some not?