: How to do this half bright face effect for portraits? So you can have a look at that picture, in that picture, the middle men's face is half bright and half of normal colour. How to do

@Jessie844

You have the photographer take the photo with the light source on one side.



You can then increase the effect in Photoshop.

Take that photo of a face where the light source is on one side (photo source)...



...and increase the contrast using Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast.

Or, a more advanced way with more fine control is to use Image > Adjustments > Curves to create an s shaped curve where the darker parts of the face are darkened and the lighter parts lightened - find where on the curve the s should pivot with the eyedropper you get while the curves window is open.



This won't help unless the photo was taken with the light source on one side.

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