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Making an advanced tonal correction

Making an advanced tonal correction - Photoshop Tutorial

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Making an advanced tonal correction

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So you have seen the basics of getting color into black and white using the Black and White dialog or ideally, the Black and White adjustment layer. And there's a lot of good work you can do with that tool. But as you may have noticed, so far we haven't gone from color into that really powerful black-and-white image, and very often you can't do that simply with the Black and White dialog box. The Black and White dialog box is there to get your image converted to black and white. Now, it's up to you to use normal toning controls to start to really work the image and make it happen. As I mentioned before, I use a fairly small refined set of editing tools. I think the bigger lesson for black and white is learning more the aesthetics of black and white in the vocabulary of black and white and what it is you need to look for, how you need to apply those tools to make a black-and-white image that really works. So, we are going to do that right now. We are going to go from start to finish…

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