From the course: Inkjet Printing: Advanced Photography Techniques
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Basic adjustments for printing - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing: Advanced Photography Techniques
Basic adjustments for printing
- We're going to kick this course off with some very simple edits. These are things you might already know how to do. If you've watched my inkjet printing course, you've seen these tools that I'm going to show you. You've seen them a lot of times in that course. As I mentioned earlier, you don't have to do things the way that I'm doing them. I'm going to work with a lot of levels adjustment layers. If you prefer using curves or another way of making tonal adjustments or color adjustments, that's fine. The real lesson is to learn to recognize what needs to change in an image. How you get that change is up to you. So open up "1.1 - Basic local edits.tif", and you'll see this image shot in Istanbul. There were all these birds flying over, and I just like the way they were framed within the rooftops, so I shot a bunch until I found a pattern of birds that I liked. As you've probably already figured out, what this image needs is brightening in the foreground. We've got a big differential…
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Basic adjustments for printing2m 46s
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Solution: Basic adjustments for printing13m 37s
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Making tonal adjustments to a black and white image2m 33s
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Solution: Making tonal adjustments to a black and white image5m 29s
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Exploring the aesthetics of black4m 12s
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Solution: Exploring the aesthetics of black6m 57s
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Improving a low-light image5m 33s
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Solution: Improving a low-light image6m 36s
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Working with adaptive shadows and highlights2m 41s
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Solution: Working with adaptive shadows and highlights4m 18s
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Editing by the numbers2m 9s
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Solution: Editing by the numbers14m 23s
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