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Evaluating and correcting highlights in a landscape - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Learning Photoshop Color Correction
Evaluating and correcting highlights in a landscape
In this movie, I'd like to take a look at, evaluate, and then adjust to correct a typical landscape image. Now, some of the images we looked at have some very obvious problems with them. Low cast images, low contrast images, images with really obvious color casts. There's a lot of images, such as this one, that don't have any major flaws in them. Composition is okay, the color looks okay. And when you look at it without comparing it to something else you might say oh, not too much I can do to improve that. But if we look at the histograms, the histograms are going to tell us if that's true or not. So let's do that. Let's evaluate this image based upon what we see in the histogram. First we'll look at the histogram as an RGB to just look at the tonal value. And we look at the distribution of tonal value, we see right off the bat, a very simple evaluation of this says, hey, there's all sorts of kind of flat line data here, where there is actually no image data in the image. It's noise…
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Using histograms9m 19s
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Identifying and removing color casts4m 29s
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Evaluating and correcting highlights in a landscape6m 33s
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Adding saturated postcard-style color enhancements5m 2s
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Finding and correcting neutrals8m 9s
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Evaluating skin tones and making basic corrections7m 13s
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Identifying neutrals and color casts6m 43s
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