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Adjusting Black & White settings

Adjusting Black & White settings - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adjusting Black & White settings

I have saved my progress as Big Sky defaults.psd and we are working on a black-and-white layer inside of this Big Sky ski resort panorama. So far all I have got are the default settings here inside the Adjustments panel. Now you can work in one of two ways, you can either begin dragging the sliders around or adjusting the numerical values or scrubbing even on the option name if you like. Or you can take advantage of the Target Adjustment tool. This is the third function inside a Photoshop that provides a Target Adjustment tool. You may recall you have got one with the Hue Saturation adjustment, you also have one with the Curves adjustment and now we have one here, and notice that the little finger icon scrubs back and forth, so that's something to remember. You can click on the tool to select it and then you drag inside of a feature of the image. For example, if I start dragging in the sky, let's say, I could either drag to the left to make the sky darker or I could drag to the right…

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