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Making precision adjustments curves - Photos for OS X Tutorial
From the course: Enhancing Your Images with Photos for macOS
Making precision adjustments curves
- While Levels is quite powerful, it is easy to crush details or get unwanted shifts. Curves can be a little bit more natural but it's a bit more complicated of an interface. Let's go to our final image here in this album. It's a raw file of the desert, and double click to open it. Now, go to the edit menu. You'll find Curves near the bottom. Now, by default, the lower left corner is the shadow and the right edge is the highlights. Right now the shadows are marked and pulled down to the dark areas and the highlights are at the top. We can click to add additional control points and you'll see that this lets us make a change. For example, opening up the mid tones or pulling them down. Let's rest that. You also have the ability here to use eyedroppers if you want to sample. So I could choose that this area right here should be treated as pure black. And I could find another area and treat that as pure white. And then…
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Fixing exposure2m 59s
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Recovering highlights and shadows4m 18s
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When to use brightness and contrast adjustments2m 39s
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Setting the black point for crisp blacks2m 36s
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Controlling selective contrast with definition2m 58s
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Making precision adjustments with levels4m 8s
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Making precision adjustments curves3m 19s
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Challenge: Controlling exposure and tonality1m 10s
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A solution for exposure and tonality2m 55s
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