869 Customizing the Auto Color command

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. … Welcome to Deke's Techniques. … For the last several weeks, I've been chasing new technology … running on an iPad. … Not so this week. … In fact today it's very much back to the basics. … And not just A-B-C basics, … primitive basics, by modern standards … super old-school stuff. … You know how Photoshop offers three automatic … color correction commands? … Under the Image menu, they are Auto Tone, … Auto Contrast and Auto Color. … Adobe's click data suggests that these three commands rank … among the 10 most popular features in the software, … which is truly bizarre given that all these commands … do is evaluate a photograph's histogram … and respond to it in ways that were signed … and sealed in the 1990s. … You just choose a demand and Photoshop does its thing. … The program gives you no control over … the process whatsoever. … Actually that's a lie. … In fact, if you decide to dig a little deeper, … you can customize each one of these commands …