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Gray card tips and tricks - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Gray card tips and tricks
I have saved my changes as High-key portrait.psd found inside the 14_levels_curves folder. In this exercise, I am going to pass along a trick that works well if you photographed a gray card inside of an image and then because most photographs are captured without a gray card, I will show you how to fake a gray card that may or may not work for you. It is fairly analogous to the way that the Auto Color command works inside of Photoshop. So it is sort of a hit or miss proposition. Anyway, I am going to go ahead and collapse my Adjustments panel, turn off the Levels Adjustment, switch to the background layer as well. I am also going to switch over here to the legitimate Eyedropper tool which you can get by pressing the I key. The reason is, because it is the king of the eyedropper. So any changes that you make to this tool also affect other eyedroppers inside of Photoshop including the three eyedroppers in the Levels panel. Notice currently, and by default, that Sample Size is set to…
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Highlights, shadows, and midtones1m 16s
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Introducing the Auto commands7m 23s
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Adjusting Cache Level settings6m 8s
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Reading a channel-by-channel histogram6m 21s
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How the Auto commands work5m 22s
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Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color7m 7s
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Blending the Auto results4m 4s
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Introducing the Levels command6m 15s
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Using Levels as an adjustment layer3m 12s
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Applying custom Levels adjustments6m 8s
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Understanding the gamma value7m 39s
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The futility of Output Levels2m 55s
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Selections and adjustment layers5m 47s
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Opening up the shadows3m 40s
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Previewing clipped pixels4m 51s
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The black, white, and gray eyedroppers5m 7s
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Gray card tips and tricks6m 5s
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Making channel-by-channel adjustments7m 29s
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Introducing the Curves command7m 44s
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Curves dialog box tricks7m 16s
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Curves adjustment layer tricks5m 45s
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Correcting an image with Curves5m 32s
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Filling in the highlights5m 42s
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Neutralizing casts and smoothing transitions5m 37s
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