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Neutralizing casts and smoothing transitions - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Neutralizing casts and smoothing transitions
In this final exercise of the chapter, we're going to modify the channel-by-channel curves settings in order to remove this purple color cast from the sky and the snow. I've gone ahead and saved my changes to this Purple sky.psd, found inside the 14_levels_curves folder. With this top layer selected, that is darken snow, make sure that layer is active, and that you're looking at the contents of the Adjustments panel here. I'm going to grab my gray eyedropper, and I'm going to move it down into a fairly purple region of the snow here, and I'm going to click on it, because the snow should just be neutral. All right, and that seems like it might have given the snow a bit of a green color cast now. That could be because I clicked on the wrong pixel. I've got my Eyedropper set to Point Sample. So, you know what, let's go ahead and change an eyedropper setting. I'll select the Eyedropper tool from the toolbox, and then I'll switch from Point sample to let's say 5 by 5 Average. I don't want…
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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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