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Introducing the Levels command - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Introducing the Levels command
In this exercise, I am going to introduce you to the Levels command, and I'll also show you how to apply all of the Auto functions that we've seen so far: Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color. You can vary their behavior in a way that effectively allows you to double the number of automatic options available to you, so instead of three, you'll now have six. I'm working inside of a file called Flat photoCD image.tif, that's found inside the 14_levels_curves folder. You can see that, yes, indeed, here inside the Layers panel, I've gone ahead and jettisoned the extra layers and we are left with a base photograph. I'll now go up to the Image menu, and let's say we want to apply, for starters here, a static application of the Levels command. I'll choose Adjustments, and then I'll choose Levels, or I could press Ctrl+L, Command+L on the Mac, brings up a dialog box complete with a 256 pixel wide Histogram. Now, I'll demonstrate how the options around the Histogram work shortly, but…
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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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