Using Exposure controls

In this exercise, we're going to take a look at the basic color adjustments…here inside Camera RAW starting with Exposure and continuing all the way down to Saturation.…I'm working inside an image called H White-balanced Alicia.dng found inside the…exercise files folder.…Now, what I've done is I've applied those White Balance settings from the…previous exercise, and then I went ahead, and cleared out the rest of the basic…adjustments by clicking on this Default button.…That way, we can get a sense of the contribution of each one of these settings.…Now, many of them are analogous to some of the functions that we saw inside of Photoshop;…other ones are different or better than they are in Photoshop.…

Notice up here in the top-right corner of the screen, we have our by…now familiar Histogram.…It's showing us a bar graph of the Luminance levels, starting at Black on…left-hand side, and continuing on to White on the right-hand side.…You can see that we've got a ton of whites because of the spike at the end of the graph.…