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Made popular by the Camera Raw plug-in that ships along with Photoshop, the color histogram contains all 3 RGB channel histograms inside one window, giving a visually pleasing reference to colour information, how the channels interact and where exactly they don't.
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Photoshop produces red, green and blue histograms inside an RGB image, when it's done it puts the results into a composite version and displays it as the standard view. How that composite view is calculated decides how we see clipping inside our images - and as you'll bear witness, things aren't always what they seem!
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brightness, channels, Commands / Tools, contrast, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, levels command, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, video tutorial
It's time to summarize the RGB, luminance and Colour histograms available inside Photoshop, and talk more specifically and indeed more technically about the statistics available in the expanded view. It's not necessarily about how to ask questions, it more about deciphering the often misunderstood answers that the histogram palette is shouting out!
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brightness, channels, CMYK, colour sampler tool, colour wheel, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, layer mask, levels command, midtones, neutral colours, opacity, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, skin tones, swatches, video tutorial
With one foot inside the CMYK colour space but the other firmly rooted to RGB land we begin to harness the power of number-based skin tone adjustments using the colour sampler tool and the levels command. Altogether a more involved but highly rewarding way to work that's employed by studios and portrait professionals around the world.
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brightness, channels, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, levels command, midtones, neutral colours, opacity, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, skin tones, swatches, video tutorial
Modifying skin tones can be a tricky task, thankfully within levels we have a number of fully-adjustable yet simple techniques that wield some great results. Some of these results depend on the user’s perception of what's right, or what's wrong, with the colour of the skin, other results are aided by a library of skin tone swatches that are prepared to work overtime to get you the results you demand.
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brightness, Commands / Tools, contrast, free, guide to levels, highlights, levels command, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, video tutorial
As powerful as editing the composite histogram may be, it pales in comparison to the results that come from making individual edits on a channel-by-channel basis. Sounds complicated? Follow the instructions from this video, add a little creativity and you'll be wandering in and out of the channels like a walk in the park.
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Understanding how channels represent colour and how colour works in the first place is a basic topic, it's also an important one that will serve you a good foundation of knowledge as you motor you're way through this series. We'll also take our first look at the histogram and turn a series of lines into some cleverly spoken words.
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