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A look at Levels and Curves

A look at Levels and Curves - Apple Photos Tutorial

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A look at Levels and Curves

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- [Instructor] Here a shot I've been dying to adjust the exposure with, along with that other one that I worked on earlier. Instead of using the light panel up here, which is what I'd normally do in all honesty. Which is a little bit more modern than what we're going to do right now, which is levels and curves, which has been around for quite a while. Now the Levels view here corresponds to the histograms. So we have darks over here, mid-tones, and brights. And really what I want to do is take down the mid-tone-to-bright side of the image. And what I mean take it down, just lower it, make it darker. So I'm going to come over here to our mid-tone, I'm just going to grab this and I'm going to move it to the right to darken that a bit. And they I'm going to grab the in-betweener, right? To get those in between bright and gray and I'm going to move that a little bit as well. I can open up the shadows a little bit by coming to…

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