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Doing more tonal corrections

Doing more tonal corrections - Photoshop Tutorial

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Doing more tonal corrections

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We're going to dive into another image here, this color RAW file, we're going to take it all the way through to a finished black and white. This is in your Exercises folder, and because it's a RAW file, when you double-click on it, it's open up in Camera RAW. And a lot of times when you're first facing an image, you've come back from a shoot and maybe it's been a while since you've shot. I was on the road for a while, so I haven't looked at this in a few weeks. And there's so much you can do in Photoshop. There are so many different ways to take an image, where do you even start? And one of the best things to do is to really try to put yourself back into the moment of shooting and try to remember, why in the world did I take this image? If it's not immediately obvious to me, what was striking to me about this image? And I think in this case, there are three main things. First of all, I've got this big pile of wood here, which I think is an interesting texture, and which I know from…

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