From the course: Inkjet Printing: Advanced Photography Techniques
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Editing by the numbers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing: Advanced Photography Techniques
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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Basic adjustments for printing2m 46s
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Solution: Basic adjustments for printing13m 37s
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Making tonal adjustments to a black and white image2m 33s
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Solution: Making tonal adjustments to a black and white image5m 29s
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Exploring the aesthetics of black4m 12s
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Solution: Exploring the aesthetics of black6m 57s
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Improving a low-light image5m 33s
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Solution: Improving a low-light image6m 36s
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Working with adaptive shadows and highlights2m 41s
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Solution: Working with adaptive shadows and highlights4m 18s
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Editing by the numbers2m 9s
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Solution: Editing by the numbers14m 23s
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