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Adjusting the Exposure value - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Adjusting the Exposure value
In this exercise I'm going to introduce you to the Exposure options, which allow you to adjust for highlight, shadows, midtones, contrast, and so on. If you're working along with me, train your Bridge on the 24_camera_raw folder, and then I want you to open up these two images here. They're called Lighthouse 1 and 2.dng, and I'm going to open them by pressing Ctrl+R or Command+R on a Mac to bring up Camera Raw, and they're two views of a California coastal lighthouse, one of which, this first one Lighthouse-1.dng, I shot with the sun at my back. The other one, the sun was in front of me essentially. So, the second shot is fairly blown out, very high contrast as well, while the first shot is more balanced, but it's still dim and dark and a little bit dingy, and I need to brighten it up. So, two very different things going on with these images. I'm going to ultimately modify them independently of each other, but I'm going to start things off, like so. I'm going to select both of the…
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Welcome to the digital darkroom1m 44s
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Introducing Camera Raw7m 40s
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Adjusting white balance7m
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Selecting and synchronizing images6m 9s
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Making automatic adjustments and saving changes7m 19s
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Creating and managing snapshots8m 23s
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Adjusting the Exposure value6m 24s
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Working with clipping warnings5m 4s
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Adjusting Brightness and Contrast7m 35s
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Vibrance, Saturation, and Clarity9m 25s
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Recovery and Fill Light6m 57s
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Using the Graduated Filter tool7m 2s
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Painting edits with the Adjustment Brush9m 43s
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Straighten, crop, and geometric distortions7m 49s
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Applying manual lens corrections7m 19s
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Vignette and chromatic aberrations6m 21s
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Introducing the Tone Curves6m 9s
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Parametric curves and targeted adjustments6m 26s
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Correcting a low-noise photograph7m 35s
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Sharpening and high-noise photos8m 25s
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Selective Hue/Saturation adjustments5m 34s
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Selective Luminance adjustments5m 39s
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Adding grain and vignetting effects5m 22s
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Mixing a subjective black-and-white image7m 53s
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Colorizing with the Split Toning options4m 29s
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Opening a raw image as a Smart Object5m 39s
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Camera Raw wrap-up8m 38s
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