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Brightness and contrast - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Brightness and contrast
We are going to start things off with a couple of similar looking butterflies that possess similar problems. The first one is this guy right here Dark butterfly.jpg and the other one is Light butterfly.jpg. They are both found inside the 07_basic_correct folder. And they were both captured by me, for what that's worth. Now at first glance you may think that these images are pretty different in terms of the problems they possess, after all this guy is incredibly washed out, way too bright, low contrast. The other image Dark butterfly. jpg is obviously far too dark. It too however does not have enough contrast even though that may not be apparent at first glance. And when you want to correct these kinds of brightness and contrast problems your best bet is this simplest color correction command that Photoshop has to offer. It's under the Image menu, go to Adjustments and then go to Brightness/Contrast. Now a lot of folks steer clear of this command, especially they've been using the…
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Making drab colors look better1m 20s
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Brightness and contrast4m 10s
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Adjusting numerical values4m 26s
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Introducing adjustment layers5m 17s
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Editing adjustment layers2m 51s
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Saving adjustment layers4m 35s
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Adding a quick layer mask4m 23s
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Introducing the Histogram4m 34s
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Working with the Histogram panel6m 27s
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Using Color Balance7m 18s
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Introducing the Variations command4m 50s
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Luminance and saturation controls3m 54s
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Fading a static adjustment3m 21s
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How hue and saturation work4m 28s
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Rotating hues and adjusting saturation6m 4s
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Creating a quick and dirty sepia tone4m 41s
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Adjusting hues selectively5m 32s
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The Target Adjustment tool4m 24s
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Photoshop CS5 Target Adjustment enhancements53s
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Adjusting the color of clothing8m 44s
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Enhancing a low-saturation image4m 23s
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Refining saturation with Vibrance5m 1s
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