burn tool, Commands / Tools, darken, free, free, highlights, midtones, Photographic, photoshop, photoshop cs4, shadows, tutorial, video, video tutorial
Photoshop's Dodge Tool is a variation of the paint brush and allows us to paint lightness into a region of the image and leave the unaffected areas untouched. That's great news if you have an artistic flare, or prefer to use the brush tools to modify the appearance of a photograph. Traditionally the Dodge Tool is used by many retouchers to lighten the skin tones in a portrait shot but there's many more reasons to use it. In this example, I'll take a poorly lit billboard and lighten the letters whilst leaving the rest of the image (and even parts of the sign) unmodified.
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brush tool, burn tool, clouds, Commands / Tools, darken, free, highlights, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs4, shadows, storm, video tutorial
Photoshop's Burn Tool paints in areas of darkness to an image. It can be used to burn in shadows of a portrait, darken the skin tones of a model, or increase the intensity in a stormy sky. Taking the form of a paintbrush, the Burn Tool can strengthen the tones of an image in a more artistic way than other methods, making fine, precision guided adjustments that add contrast and tonality to an otherwise flat image.
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adjustment layer, beginner's guide to photoshop elements, brightness, colour, Commands / Tools, contrast, free, highlights, hue/saturation comand, layer mask, levels command, midtones, Photographic, photoshop elements 6, saturate, shadows, video tutorial
At first glance, it may seem that we’re revisiting the same things we looked at way back when we explored the Quick Fix mode, but on second glance, we’re correcting the same problems only this time with way more accuracy, detail and control.
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beginner's guide to photoshop elements, brightness, colour, Commands / Tools, contrast, focus, free, hand tool, highlights, hue, midtones, pan, Photographic, photoshop elements 6, quick fix mode, saturation, shadows, sharpen, smart fix, temperature, tint, version sets, zoom, video tutorial
Having covered the theory of the Quick Fix mode in the previous video, it’s time to correct colour, brightness and focus of a real-world digital photograph. Almost all photographs taken on a digital camera require some degree of adjustment to make them look good, and quite simply put, the Quick Fix mode is going to be the fastest and easiest way to get the job done.
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brightness, colour cast, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, levels command, luminance, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, shadows, tint, video tutorial
A colour cast is when the colour of an image shifts towards a specific hue, say green, to give the whole image an unsightly green tint. The reasons behind this and the resulting cast can be as numerous as the tools available to fix it. For this reason we'll take a classic example and put things right both manually and automatically.
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brightness, colour, colour blend mode, Commands / Tools, contrast, free, guide to levels, highlights, lab colour mode, levels command, luminance, luminosity blend mode, midtones, photoshop cs3, saturation, shadows, Special Effects, video tutorial
So we know the difference between colour and luminance information, now's the time to look at dividing the two and working on each individually. Whether we're doing that with blend modes or the highly theoretical Lab colour space we're going to be opening our eyes to a whole new universe.
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brightness, camera raw, colour histogram, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, levels command, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, video tutorial
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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brightness, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, levels command, luminance, luminance histogram, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, shadows, video tutorial
Because the human eye doesn't see red, green and blue light equally we need a reliable way of representing the brightness of a pixel independent of colour. And so steps up the luminance histogram - the most accurate way of spotting clipped shadows and blown highlights threatening the very existence of your image!
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brightness, clipped highlights, clipped shadows, colour panel, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, levels command, luminance, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, video tutorial
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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