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Blending the Auto results - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Blending the Auto results
I have gone ahead and saved my changes from the previous exercise. First is Cute zombie.psd, because after all, with all this bluishness in her skin, she must be undead, and then we also have Sundial adjustments.psd; both are found inside the 14_levels_curves folder. In this exercise, I am going to take the results of the various Auto commands and I am going to merge them together to create the ideal color adjustment. So we'll start off inside the sundial image here. I am going to turn off Auto Color, because it's just a big disappointment. There is not much we are going to do with that. But we should be able to mix Auto Contrast and Auto Tone together to create something pretty useful. So Auto Contrast is almost all the way there by itself. So I am going to put it in back of Auto Tone, so that we can reduce the Opacity of Auto Tone and reveal Auto Contrast in the background. Now we are seeing the yellowish Auto Tone layer, and now I'm just going to press the 2 key, and because one of…
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Highlights, shadows, and midtones1m 16s
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Introducing the Auto commands7m 23s
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Adjusting Cache Level settings6m 8s
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Reading a channel-by-channel histogram6m 21s
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How the Auto commands work5m 22s
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Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color7m 7s
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Blending the Auto results4m 4s
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Introducing the Levels command6m 15s
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Using Levels as an adjustment layer3m 12s
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Applying custom Levels adjustments6m 8s
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Understanding the gamma value7m 39s
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The futility of Output Levels2m 55s
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Selections and adjustment layers5m 47s
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Opening up the shadows3m 40s
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Previewing clipped pixels4m 51s
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The black, white, and gray eyedroppers5m 7s
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Gray card tips and tricks6m 5s
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Making channel-by-channel adjustments7m 29s
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Introducing the Curves command7m 44s
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Curves dialog box tricks7m 16s
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Curves adjustment layer tricks5m 45s
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Correcting an image with Curves5m 32s
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Filling in the highlights5m 42s
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Neutralizing casts and smoothing transitions5m 37s
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