I have a pretty basic digital drawing, using a wood texture. The problem I have is the texture has highlights on one side that don't match the rest of the wood. I have tried just putting a brown color over them with 20% opacity, messing around with HSL, but I don't know anything about levels or stuff.
Here is the image, I want to make the wood's highlighting and color more uniform.
Here's another approach for Photoshop that you could take to achieve the result you want.
Firstly to tone down the highlight is;
Using your colour picker (i) select one of the darker tones from the handle.
Make a new layer and fill it with the darker colour using the paint bucket tool (G).
Create a layer mask to ensure that the fill you've created is only covering the are of the handle that has the highlight. (Mask shown in 1)
At the top of the layers panel, you can change the blend mode of this layer to darken (as shown in 2)
You can also use this approach to make the new highlight.
Using your colour picker (i) select one of the light tones from the handle.
Make a new layer and fill it with the lighter colour using the paint bucket tool (G).
Create a layer mask to ensure that the fill you've created is only covering the are of the handle that you wish to highlight.
At the top of the layers panel, you can change the blend mode of this layer to Linear Dodge (add)
Here is my the final result (of course though it's a quick example and you may spend more time tweaking your own version);
Hope I've helped!
Try this. In photoshop on the left should be where your toolbar resides. About halfway down, should be a icon that looks like a lollipop.
Click and hold that and 3 options should come out: Dodge, burn and sponge.
Click on the burn tool and at the top, reduce the exposure to a low level around 10 - 15% and switch the range to 'Shadows' and brush where the highlight is. Make sure that you have a soft brush for this technique. It should automatically give you one but if it doesn't, hold Shift + [ together to reduce the hardness.
