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Curves adjustment layer tricks - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Curves adjustment layer tricks
I've gone ahead and cancelled out of the Curves dialog box. I'm still working in the image, Snowy old barn.tif, found inside the 14_levels_curves folder. In this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to the Curves Adjustment layer, and we'll see how things work slightly differently in the Adjustments panel. Now, we'll start off by creating a Curves Adjustment layer, and assuming that you loaded dekeKeys or you've followed my advice earlier in this chapter, you can do it from the keyboard. You just add the Shift key to the standard curve shortcut, which means you press Ctrl+Shift+M or Command+Shift+M on the Mac. That displays the Adjustments panel. That automatically clicks on the third icon in on the first row, which is Curves, brings up the New layer dialog box, so you can name the new layer if you want. I'm just going to call it Curves for now. I'll click OK, and now we see the giant Curves graph. This group of options is what's responsible for the enormity of the Adjustments panel…
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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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