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Exposure and Contrast

Exposure and Contrast - Photoshop Tutorial

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Exposure and Contrast

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- [Instructor] All right. Now we're going to dig into Camera Raw's brightness controls, specifically exposure and contrast. And we'll see their effect on the full-color histogram. So I'll go ahead and select this image right here, and I'll just stay inside Bridge, by either right-clicking inside the image and choosing Open in Camera Raw, or you can just press Control + R or Command + R on the Mac. And now notice that we have a fairly otherworldly image here, but it's pretty murky as well, which is where the brightness controls come into play. We start with the exposure and end with blacks. Now notice that we've got an Auto button if you want Camera Raw to take an automatic swing at things, in which case, it's going to make up a bunch of values for all six of these options. And in the case of this image, it doesn't do a half-bad job. And I want you to note the condition of the histogram as well. If I click on Default,…

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