Removing intense shadows on a photo in Photoshop?

I have this picture of a gorillas face, but one half of his face is darker than the other half due to the way the photo was taken and the position of the sun. I want to use this effect but whenever i do either one half of his face is too light or the other half is too dark. So i was wondering if there was a way i could maybe even the face out in terms of light? Thanks. Removing intense shadows on a photo in Photoshop?
Try playing around with the curves. Removing intense shadows on a photo in Photoshop?
I am a bit confused on what exactly you are asking...are you trying to duplicate the effect, or remove the shadowing all together?so i an just going to go by what the title of this Q is saying...sorry if i am answering the wrong thing! =]


I would do the following to get rid of the shaddows:


1. select the shaddowed part of his face ( I would do this using the magnetic lasso tool, but you can do it however you like)





2. go to select (at the top of your screen) %26gt;%26gt;modify%26gt;%26gt;feather and then feather by 3 pixles (this will make sure that there are no rough edges)





3. Then, making sure that your selection is still active, go to levels (i dont remember how to get there using the menus but the keyboard command is command L (so hold down the command key and the letter L and the same time) on a mac or control L on a PC.





4. adjust the white slider as far the the left as you want until you are satisfied.





hope this helps you and good luck!
Under Image-%26gt;Adjustments you'll find the ';Shadows Highlight'; command. This would be the easiest way to adjust very dark shadows.





Another way would be to go to 'Colour Range' under SELECT and under 'sampled colours' click select on 'shadows' in the drop down menu.





The shadows will be selected. Just copy and paste these. Then in your layers palette change the blending mode (of the copied layer) from NORMAL to SCREEN. Then move your opacity slider to get the best results.
The easiest way is under Image%26gt;Adjustments%26gt;Shadow/Highlights. That will open a small window with two slider bars, one for Shadows, and one for Highlights. It will darken your Highlights and lighten your Shadows, as much or as little as you want. Really easy and quick fix for that, you can preview the effect live as you change the sliders. Hope this helps!
I'm quit new at Photoshop so there might be another way to do this as well. But what would try to do is make a selection of the dark part of his face, then put the selection on its own layer with ctr+shift+J then on the new layer adjust the lighting and play with the effects.
Make a duplicate layer and adjust the shadows in the dark half. Erase the parts that are now too light.





Or...





Try the ';Shadows and Highlights'; tool. Just move the slider until it works out.





Or...





Use the curves adjustment and move the shadow adjustment to a lighter level.