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Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color
I have gone ahead and saved my changes as Auto money.psd found inside the 14_levels_curves folder. And I think the Auto commands are fairly obvious in terms of their purpose especially when applied to a low colored graphical image like this money right here. However, when we move on to more nuance digital photographs which contain more subtle luminance transitions and far more colors, while then the Auto commands become a little bit more difficult to predict. So I am going to show you how they behave with a couple of different digital photographs, but I want you to know this, the Auto commands do their best work on two kinds of images, either images that have color castes, and as you know both the Auto Tone and the Auto Color commands, will remove color caste from an image but strictly speaking you don't need a color caste, because if the colors are okay, you can just go ahead and apply the Auto Contrast command, what you definitely need inside of an image, what the Auto Commands are…
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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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