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Doing more tonal corrections - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
Doing more tonal corrections
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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The nature of grayscale images3m 33s
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Converting to black and white using Photoshop CS4 or CS56m 17s
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More about the Black & White dialog box3m 19s
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Converting to black and white using Black & White adjustment layers3m 54s
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Converting to black and white in Camera Raw4m 5s
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Making an advanced tonal correction17m 33s
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Doing more tonal corrections14m 6s
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Calming down highlights10m 4s
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Vignetting8m 58s
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The trestle images2m 39s
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Handling tricky skies2m 43s
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Doing a selective black-and-white conversion2m 23s
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Toning1m 19s
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Split-toning2m 19s
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High-key and low-key images2m 31s
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Diffusion4m 40s
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Using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2 plug-in7m 46s
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