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Using Levels as an adjustment layer - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Using Levels as an adjustment layer
In this exercise, I am going to show you how to apply Levels as an Adjustment layer. We'll see that there are a few differences when you're working inside the Adjustments panel as opposed to inside the Levels dialog box. But even though it's a little more challenging to work this way, it's worth the effort. Because an Adjustment layer, as you may recall from Chapter 7, in the Fundamentals portions of the series, an Adjustment layer keeps your modifications editable. I'm still working inside Flat photoCD image.tif, found inside the 14_levels_curves folder. In order to create an Adjustment layer, I need to bring up the Adjustments panel. I want to keep the Adjustments panel over here in the right-hand stack this time around, because we don't have a lot of layers. So if I scrunch the Layers panel, no big deal. So I am going to go ahead and grab this collection of icons right there, and I am going to move it just above layers, like so, drop it into place. So there is the Adjustments…
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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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