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Introducing the Curves command - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Introducing the Curves command
All right, we're through with us Fotolia portrait. I've gone ahead and saved out the final corrections as Scarlet starlet.psd. We're now going to move on to an image that you cannot successfully accommodate using the Levels command. That's this one right here, it's called Snowy old barn.tif. This is an image that I captured either in northern Wyoming or southern Montana, we were somewhere right around the border. I'm going to go ahead and press Shift+Tab to hide the right side panels, and then scoot this guy over to the left a little bit, so that we have some room to work on the right. While I really like the detail inside of this image, it's really sharp and tactile. However, we've got some major contrast problems. The barn is so dark, it looks like it was set on fire. Then the background is so bright, we barely have any detail whatsoever. So, what we need to do is reduce the contrast of this image. That's not something that the Levels command excels at. If you go up to the Image…
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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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