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Opening up the shadows - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Opening up the shadows
I'm still working inside Gamma tweak.psd inside the 14_levels_curves folder. You may recall in the previous exercise, we went ahead and painted the selection with the Quick Selection tool and then refined it using the Refine Edge command. Now, we're ready to create another Adjustment layer that will open up those shadows, and we're going to put that Adjustment layer on top of the existing one. So, go ahead and click on the custom levels adjustment, and I'm going to apply another Levels Adjustment layer. So, I'll press Ctrl+Shift+L or Command+Shift+L on the Mac, and I encourage you to go ahead and name your Adjustment layers according to their function. So, in this case, I call my shadow brightener, for example, because that's what it's going to do, and then I'll click OK. Up comes the Adjustments panel with a histogram that represents the composite view. So, in other words, I'm seeing the histogram of the selection that's a combination of the Background image and the custom levels…
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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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