Hard Light Effects in Photoshop - (PSD Box)

This is the first live tutorial I recorded so I had no idea what I will end up with. Basically I wanted to show how to get a high contrast hard light effect in Photoshop, almost HDR looking. I wanted to keep things realistic so I used the contrast masking technique to keep the original shadows of the model. This tutorial can be followed in Adobe Elements as well. Model stock image by Marcus Ranum: Background image by Julia Starr: http://night-fate-stock.