Adjusting levels and hues

In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to adjust levels and hues inside Photoshop.…I could just as easily call it what to do when brightness, contrast, and…vibrance don't work.…I have opened an image called Group photo. jpg found inside the exercise files folder.…As you can see it's washed-out and yet it has a fairly high degree of contrast.…Let's see if we can fix it using the Brightness/Contrast adjustment.…I'll go over here to the first icon in the Adjustments panel and click on it,…and then because the image is too bright, it needs to be darkened up, I'll take…down the Brightness value, and because it has too much contrast, I'll reduce the…Contrast value as well.…

Now, I suppose I could apply a more nuanced adjustment than that, but our…adjustments so far looks terrible and it's not taking care of the real problems.…Notice that the shadows inside this image really lack weight.…And we can get a better sense of what's going on here by collapsing the…Adjustments panel and expanding the Histogram panel.…