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Comparing before and after states

Comparing before and after states - Photos for OS X Tutorial

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Comparing before and after states

- A lot of times as you adjust an image, you may want to compare it to its original state. I call this a simple before and after. This is great because it prevents you from overdoing it. A lot of times you start to push the sliders and you actually go too far. You don't realize how much you've distorted it from the original photo. Let me show you a couple of simple examples. Let's go into this really dark image here and double click to open it and we'll go into edit view. Now what I'm going to do is just drag the light slider here to simply open up the image and I'm just using the super slider up top, which analyzes and moves multiple sliders at once. I like that and we'll put a little color in and as I'm working, I want to compare. So if I click in the upper left corner here, I can toggle between the two states. Analyzing if there's any problems or color shifts. I see, for example, a little line here that's standing out…

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