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Adjusting Brightness and Contrast - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Adjusting Brightness and Contrast
All right, I'm still working inside of Lighthouse 1.dng. I've modified the Exposure and Black settings. We're skipping Recovery and Fill Light for now and we're dropping down here to Brightness and Contrast. Now on the face of it these are some pretty simple options. They worked virtually identically to the Brightness and Contrast options that are associated with the Brightness/ Contrast command inside of Photoshop. In fact, when Adobe's engineers said about improving the behavior of Brightness and Contrast inside Photoshop, they used these Brightness and Contrast options as a model. However what you have to bear in mind is that with the Brightness and Contrast command we're taking an eight bit per channel image, it's already RGB, all the data is there, and we're tweaking the data. Whereas here inside of Camera Raw we're actually developing this raw information. So our results are going to be a little different. Now my values up here are 10 and 50 respectively because I've clicked the…
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Welcome to the digital darkroom1m 44s
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Introducing Camera Raw7m 40s
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Adjusting white balance7m
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Selecting and synchronizing images6m 9s
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Making automatic adjustments and saving changes7m 19s
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Creating and managing snapshots8m 23s
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Adjusting the Exposure value6m 24s
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Working with clipping warnings5m 4s
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Adjusting Brightness and Contrast7m 35s
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Vibrance, Saturation, and Clarity9m 25s
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Recovery and Fill Light6m 57s
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Using the Graduated Filter tool7m 2s
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Painting edits with the Adjustment Brush9m 43s
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Straighten, crop, and geometric distortions7m 49s
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Applying manual lens corrections7m 19s
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Vignette and chromatic aberrations6m 21s
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Introducing the Tone Curves6m 9s
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Parametric curves and targeted adjustments6m 26s
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Correcting a low-noise photograph7m 35s
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Sharpening and high-noise photos8m 25s
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Selective Hue/Saturation adjustments5m 34s
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Selective Luminance adjustments5m 39s
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Adding grain and vignetting effects5m 22s
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Mixing a subjective black-and-white image7m 53s
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Colorizing with the Split Toning options4m 29s
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Opening a raw image as a Smart Object5m 39s
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Camera Raw wrap-up8m 38s
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