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Correcting an image with Curves - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Correcting an image with Curves
I'm still working inside Snowy old barn.tif, found inside the 14_levels_curves folder. In this exercise, we're going to take a Curves Adjustment layer and we're going to apply it to the actual task of correcting this image. Now, I already have a Curves Adjustment layer at work here. But I'm going to clear it out by clicking on the Reset icon in the lower right corner of the Adjustments panel. Then I'm going to start to work using the Target Adjustment tool, which greatly simplifies the behavior of the Curves dialog box in my opinion. Now, notice that the pointing finger has an up-down arrow icon next to it, meaning that you're going to drag up and down inside the image in order to produce results. So, go ahead and click on that tool to select it, and then I'm going to begin dragging from one of the darkest details inside the image, known as this point here, next to this knot. So, it's just little bit over, inside the right portion of the barn. If you're looking at the Input and Output…
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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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