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I do love Friday´s TK series Thanks Dave

Excellent, simple and easy to understand, with great results !

Really appreciate your straight forward and informative tutorials! Many thanks.

Great Tutorial Dave....! I've been using the TK7 & 8 for a while now & use the paint contrast fairly frequently; but I never thought about using different layers. Such a common sense & obvious approach, that I was blind to it.... Not anymore. Thank you!

TK - TGIF >>> Thanks Dave

Tony Good Grief, I've been using TK panels for years and never tried this! Thank you.

Very usefull tool. Thanks Dave

Fabulous. Another TK feature I’ll now use!

Very useful. Thanks Dave

Wow Dave! I've been a user since TK4 and I never saw THAT trick before.

Dave, thanks so much for introducing me to TK7. I purchased it and am using it a lot. Thanks for continuing to teach us how to use all the features. I. didn't know about this. Please keep doing these. I'm a big fan of yours. You have taught me a lot.

Wow, how simple and effective. I love my Friday mornings as I learn to extend the capabilities of TK7. Thanks for all of your hard work Dave.

Awesome technique. I will be using this for sure.

Another great tutorial! I’m a fan!

How simple. Can't wait to try it. Thanks Dave. appreciate all you do for us.

Great idea for the TK8 panel to have Paint Contrast auto-create three separate layers, one per brush (BWG). :)

A great explanation of a powerful tool I would have totally missed if not for your video. Great job Dave. I'm going to try it out now.

Your Tutorials are always well researched, informative and helpful. I just tried this technique on an image and it did wonders on improving my image. Thanks! Happiness is TK Friday.

You've taken Paint Contrast to a new level, Dave. Actually, 3 of them (or more, for individual area tweaks of opacity or fill). This is really useful for me, for images where the sensor averaged the lights & darks, and I need to "de-average" those, in order to restore what I saw in the original image. Or, I was there in the middle of the day, when the light was more blah. This is a way to take some of the blah from those images, and make them useful! Thanks!

Thank you Dave for another great TK Friday tutorial. I've learnt so much from your Friday sessions over the past few months. This one reminds a little like the dodge and burn but more controlled in the contrast very powerful feature. Who needs a Swiss army knife when you can use TK7 for Photoshop.

WOW!!!!!

Nice video - I'll use this technique to fix some self-portraits I did... and they're way too flat. Thanks!

Thanks Dave. I suppose you can call this a special way of dodging and burning? Simple and powerful!

thank you!

Great tutorial, Dave. One suggestion. I find that modifying the intensity (specifically increasing the intensity) of the effect using the Fill can introduce some undesirable colour side effects and Opacity can only be used the reduce the effect since it's at 100% by default. One option is to apply a Levels adjustment (Image>Adjustments>Levels) and use the mid-tone slider to increase or reduce the intensity. The Output sliders can also be used. And there's no colour side effect.

Excellent video, Dave. This paint with contrast action looks superb. By the way, I have subscribed to your channel, but have not been getting your e-mails. Your videos make using the TK8 beta panel user friendly. Thanks. Larry

Absolutely brilliant. I use the paint contrast layer, but these techniques you use are super cool! I am curious - What will you do with the TK8...?!

Really like this technique/effect. Thanks for showing us this. I was looking for a tool to help light/enhance waterfalls better. This will work perfectly. I was wondering. I have some questions on the TK7 action - Spotlight. It doesn't seem to act consistently for me. Could you do a segment on that action too??

Sure would like more info on using the TK 8 panel

Hello Dave, once again a great tutorial, explaining something I have never used in the TK Panel. I have been practising on my own Flower shots and am amazed at the difference it has made. I find that it makes Dodge and Burn redundant in certain images. Tony Kuyper is a genius , but your contribution to understanding the TK Panel is indispensable. But I do have a question. When you click the Paint Contrast action you come up with a layer with a White background. I have a Transparent background. And I cannot for the life of me find out how to change that. I have the latest version of PS. Any help would be much appreciated.

Another great video, Dave! I know that creativity is a subjective thing, but I struggle with when to use (for example), dodge & burn with a stencil vs. linear light blend color amplification vs. paint with contrast. Any guidance?

Is this a clever way to dodge and burn? When might you use this and when might you dodge and burn with luminosity masks?