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Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color

Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color - Photoshop Tutorial

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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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