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Selective Luminance adjustments - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Selective Luminance adjustments
In this exercise I'm going to show you another use for the HSL options. This time we'll make a few modifications to the hue and saturation values, and we'll also change the luminance of the sky. I'm looking at the changes that I've made so far, which include a bunch of basic modifications as well as some local adjustments, that I applied using the Adjustment Brush and the Graduated Filter tools. And if you didn't save your changes, you can go ahead and load mine by clicking on the fly-out menu icon, choosing Apply Snapshot, and then choosing Basic & Local, and you'll catch right up with me. Now, some of your may look at this image and think hey, Deke, I don't know if you've noticed, but this image is crooked. It's actually leaning to the left, possibly because of the ginormous weight of this dinosaur here. However, I want to actually enhance that affect. I want to make it lean even farther and crop for effect, not to straighten. So I'm going to grab the Crop tool, make sure it's set…
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Welcome to the digital darkroom1m 44s
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Introducing Camera Raw7m 40s
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Adjusting white balance7m
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Selecting and synchronizing images6m 9s
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Making automatic adjustments and saving changes7m 19s
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Creating and managing snapshots8m 23s
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Adjusting the Exposure value6m 24s
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Working with clipping warnings5m 4s
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Adjusting Brightness and Contrast7m 35s
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Vibrance, Saturation, and Clarity9m 25s
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Recovery and Fill Light6m 57s
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Using the Graduated Filter tool7m 2s
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Painting edits with the Adjustment Brush9m 43s
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Straighten, crop, and geometric distortions7m 49s
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Applying manual lens corrections7m 19s
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Vignette and chromatic aberrations6m 21s
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Introducing the Tone Curves6m 9s
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Parametric curves and targeted adjustments6m 26s
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Correcting a low-noise photograph7m 35s
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Sharpening and high-noise photos8m 25s
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Selective Hue/Saturation adjustments5m 34s
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Selective Luminance adjustments5m 39s
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Adding grain and vignetting effects5m 22s
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Mixing a subjective black-and-white image7m 53s
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Colorizing with the Split Toning options4m 29s
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Opening a raw image as a Smart Object5m 39s
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Camera Raw wrap-up8m 38s
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