Reading the histogram

- A histogram is a computer display that…helps you understand the overall…exposure information within an image.…It can also detect if there's a color balance issue…as you take a look at the different channels.…Here we go, with our histogram for the current opened image,…and you'll see that it skews a little bit to the left.…This side indicates the darker values…and the right side indicates the brighter values.…You'll notice on the histogram here…that I can remove it, of course,…and if it's not visible, just make sure…to click on "Add" and bring the histogram back.…

The histogram itself is pretty straightforward.…As you start to make adjustments to the image,…for example, brightening up that image,…you'll notice that the midtones move to the right,…and this better exposes the image.…Now in this case I've gone a bit far,…and you start to see that there's…some clipping in the highlights.…That's what this spike indicates here.…Let's click an auto value, and it's better exposed.…Remember, you can open these up to see more controls,…