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Selections and adjustment layers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Selections and adjustment layers
I'm still working inside Gamma tweak.psd, found inside the 14_levels_curves folder, and my only remaining concern vis -a-vis the brightness and contrast of this image is the overly dark shadows underneath this slight awning. What I'd like to do is breathe life into those details. You'll sometimes hear people talk about opening up the shadows. That means they're hoping to lighten up the darkest areas of the image. Now, one way to work would be to grab the Dodge tool, which you may recall from Chapter 9 of the fundamentals portion of this series, and then you could go ahead and paint under the awning. Now, I'm getting the ghostbuster icon, because I have my adjustment layer active. So, I'm going to collapse my Adjustments panel and switch to the Background layer, and then I'm going to paint over it, and you can see that that makes a big difference very quickly. So, the Dodge tool allows you to make quick edits inside of an image like nobody's business. However, let's say you want more…
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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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