Adjusting Contrast

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Here she is all masked. In case you don't know, the quick mask button is under the big foreground/background squares on the left of your screen. You use black to add to the mask and white to remove it. I use the pencil tool to get a good sharp edge when painting on the mask.		 next
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Color		 When you have it just the way you want it, press the “create selection” button which is next to the mask button. I have masked around all the areas that are too high in contrast. Once selected, they can be adjusted separately from the dark areas which are too flat.
      After I had the selection made, I chose Layer > New > Adjustment Layer, and chose Brightness/Contrast from the dialog box's menu.
adjustment layer's dialog box
This is not as precise as the other adjustment ways, but in this case it was fine. I used minus 22% brightness and minus 7% contrast. You can preview what you are doing and cancel if you don't like it.
       I will now use the Curves to adjust the dark areas.
See the screen shot next.		  
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