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Solution: Fix a scanned image

Solution: Fix a scanned image

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Solution: Fix a scanned image

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- [Instructor] To complete this challenge, I started off viewing the image in Bridge, and I did that by going up to the File menu and selecting Browse in Bridge. Now, since this image is a tiff, I figured I would address those exposure issues right away inside of Camera Raw, so I right or Control clicked on the image and selected, Open in Camera Raw. Now as you look at the histogram, you can see this image is slightly underexposed with a lot of density down here near the shadows and the blacks. Also there's this large spike up here in the highlights, so we want to address that as well. I dialed up the exposure by half a stop, and then pulled a little bit of contrast out of the image by dialing the contrast down to minus 10, and to breathe a little more life into the shadows, I raised those up to plus 10, and we no longer have any clipping in our blacks, and to deal with this clipping in the whites, I pulled the highlights down to minus 25, and dropped the white levels down to minus…

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