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Brightness and contrast

Brightness and contrast - Photoshop Tutorial

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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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