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Adjusting Cache Level settings - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Adjusting Cache Level settings
In this exercise, I'm going to explain how Cache Levels work inside of Photoshop. I'll also tell you how and why you might want to modify the number of Cache Levels that Photoshop tracks at any given moment in time. Now this topic is somewhat academic. I want to warn you about that in advance, but it's of keen interest to any student of Photoshop and I just have to change the number of Cache Levels to effectively demonstrate how the Auto commands work inside of this Father of our money.psd file. Now notice right off the bat, that I've gone ahead and move this ginormous Histogram panel into the panel dock over here in right-hand side of the screen. I also saved out a new workspace called Big Histograms. So I still have my original workspace One-on-One which I could switch to at any time but notice if I do, if I switch to One-on-One like so, it doesn't really change things very much and that's because Photoshop is constantly updating the workspaces on the fly and this was the last state…
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Highlights, shadows, and midtones1m 16s
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Introducing the Auto commands7m 23s
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Adjusting Cache Level settings6m 8s
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Reading a channel-by-channel histogram6m 21s
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How the Auto commands work5m 22s
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Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color7m 7s
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Blending the Auto results4m 4s
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Introducing the Levels command6m 15s
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Using Levels as an adjustment layer3m 12s
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Applying custom Levels adjustments6m 8s
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Understanding the gamma value7m 39s
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The futility of Output Levels2m 55s
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Selections and adjustment layers5m 47s
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Opening up the shadows3m 40s
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Previewing clipped pixels4m 51s
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The black, white, and gray eyedroppers5m 7s
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Gray card tips and tricks6m 5s
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Making channel-by-channel adjustments7m 29s
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Introducing the Curves command7m 44s
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Curves dialog box tricks7m 16s
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Curves adjustment layer tricks5m 45s
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Correcting an image with Curves5m 32s
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Filling in the highlights5m 42s
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Neutralizing casts and smoothing transitions5m 37s
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