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Improving a low-light image - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing: Advanced Photography Techniques
Improving a low-light image
- I'm starting again here with an original image because a lot of people get confused about what edits to do in Lightroom and what edits to do in Photoshop. So I'm gonna walk you through what I would do in Lightroom and then hand off the image to you to finish in Photoshop. One of the big problems, as we touched on earlier, is you see it onscreen and you go, "That's right." But screen and paper are so different, you have to go by the numbers. Very often what I do is work up tonal relationships that I like onscreen, sometimes using a lot of adjustment layers, then I go back and add another set of adjustment layers that correct the image for print. So there are a lot of different stages and places that I'm making edits. There are my initial edits here in Lightroom, followup edits either with additional tools in Lightroom or in Photoshop, and then sometimes another round of printing edits. So this image, now that I look at it, I realize wow, really doesn't look like much. First of all…
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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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