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Introducing the Curves command

Introducing the Curves command - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing the Curves command

All right, we're through with us Fotolia portrait. I've gone ahead and saved out the final corrections as Scarlet starlet.psd. We're now going to move on to an image that you cannot successfully accommodate using the Levels command. That's this one right here, it's called Snowy old barn.tif. This is an image that I captured either in northern Wyoming or southern Montana, we were somewhere right around the border. I'm going to go ahead and press Shift+Tab to hide the right side panels, and then scoot this guy over to the left a little bit, so that we have some room to work on the right. While I really like the detail inside of this image, it's really sharp and tactile. However, we've got some major contrast problems. The barn is so dark, it looks like it was set on fire. Then the background is so bright, we barely have any detail whatsoever. So, what we need to do is reduce the contrast of this image. That's not something that the Levels command excels at. If you go up to the Image…

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