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Editing by the numbers

Editing by the numbers - Photoshop Tutorial

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Editing by the numbers

- We're going to wrap up this chapter with one more image. This is a simple image. There's nothing really tricky about the editing of this image, but I want you to do it by the numbers. I really want to remember that this is not about just learning Photoshop tricks, this is not about getting an image looking good on screen, we're trying to make images for print. So, I'm going to encourage you to do something a little extra challenging. Go to the monitor controls that you have at your disposal and screw up your monitor. Turn the brightness down on the Mac. I can do that from the keyboard. I can turn the brightness down. Some monitors also have a contrast adjustment. It's okay to take note of where they are now so you can get them back to normal, but I want your monitor off. Not turned off, I mean, I want the settings off. I want them out of wack, I want it askew because really what we're trying to learn to do here is edit by data. So, we're going to fix up this image for print. You may…

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