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Introducing the Auto commands - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Introducing the Auto commands
We're going to spend most of our time in this chapter on just two functions. Located under the Image menu, you go to Adjustments and they're located right there, Levels and Curves. And they're both available as Adjustment layers as well by the way, and we'll see all that of course. Now, these rank among Photoshop's most essential capabilities, they are the two most powerful color correction features inside the software. In many ways they duplicate each other, they work differently, but their goals are the same. And what they do is this, they allow you to correct the luminance of an image on a channel by channel bases. And the practical upshot of that is, you can correct the brightness of an image, you can correct its contrast, and you can also compensate for color cast, all from one dialog box, or panel, or what have you. Now, as I say, they're both working toward the same goal, so there's no reason to use both of them on the same image. You want to make a clear call, you're either…
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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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