Correcting a low-contrast image

In this movie, we're going to perform a step-by-step adjustment of our image.…Now, just to review what our goal here is to improve the…contrast of this image, while maintaining the overall color balance of the image.…And the tool that we're going to use…is the Curves Adjustment layer, and we're going to working on the master channel.…Because we're going to be adjusting the overall tongue, but not the color balance.…So we're not going to be working on the individual channels.…Alright, and again just to review our distribution of data in the image.…When we look at our histogram here we see that we've got a flat line here…with very little highlight, data highlight the quarter…tone, almost no three quarter tone to shadow.…

So our first adjustment here, is going to be to…move data, into the highlight, and move data into the…shadow, thereby giving us a overall higher contrast image.…And to do that it's very simple.…We can just start with our highlight slider.…And click on the highlight slider, and move this from right to left, towards the…