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Introducing the Levels command

Introducing the Levels command - Photoshop Tutorial

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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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