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Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves

Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves

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- [Instructor] In the next few minutes, I want to take a look at both the levels as well as the Curves Adjustment Layer in Photoshop and I want to apply them both locally as well as globally. So, we'll start at the bottom of the layers panel and I'll use the adjustment layer icon in order to add a levels adjustment layer. We can see that the adjustment layer has been added and in the properties panel we have all of the adjustments for that adjustment layer. We can see in the middle we have a histogram. Now a histogram is just a visual representation of all of the values in your image. In this particular image, I can see that I'm not using the entire dynamic range. The image is quite flat. It doesn't have any values down here in the dark areas nor does it have any in the lighter areas. So in order to correct this, I could choose the auto button and Photoshop would automatically set new black and white points for me. But I…

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