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Making a gradient adjustment - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Making a gradient adjustment
Ben: Okay, so Jessie, you've made your initial edits and they're looking good, but in thinking about this as a printed image, right away my first concern is that the foreground is too dark. What we've got here is a bright sky and a silhouetted mid-ground and a dark foreground. Your camera exposed for the sky, which left the foreground too dark. Now this morning you were telling me that you went out early this morning and the water Ben: was really metallic-looking. Jess: Yeah. Ben: Is it--compared to what you saw then, how does this look now. Is that about-- Jess: It looks a little bit more dull. Ben: Okay, so we need to bring that out. This is tricky because your camera is good enough that we could really brighten this whole thing up, but it's not going to really. Your eye wasn't seeing a tremendous amount of brightness. So I think the goal is to get back to that metallic look that you were having. So here in Camera Raw we can see that we've got an overexposure over here. That's going…
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Printing and your workflow3m 3s
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Printing black-and-white photos6m 49s
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Understanding the histogram7m 37s
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Understanding what localized adjustments are used for2m 38s
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Explaining the histogram with a practical example6m 51s
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Making a localized adjustment in a practical example5m 30s
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Evaluating a localized adjustment in a practical example2m 29s
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Refining a localized adjustment for effect13m 36s
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Making a gradient adjustment6m 47s
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Paying attention to viewing conditions4m 49s
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Summing up1m 50s
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