banding, brightness, channels, clipping, Commands / Tools, contrast, custom keyboard shortcuts, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, layer mask, levels command, masking, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, posterize, posterize command, set black point, set grey point, set white point, shadows, video tutorial
The eyedropper tools inside levels have the ability of setting specific values for specific pixels which is ideal when adjusting shadows, midtones and highlights. In the honour of levels we'll look at the eyedroppers and the theory of posterization followed by a full blown creative party as we play with those aforementioned eyedroppers, avoid the party-pooper that lives by the name of colour banding, and perform a very special party trick by transforming the grey eyedropper into a colour replacement tool. Doesn't time fly when you're having fun!!
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auto button, brightness, channels, clipping, Commands / Tools, contrast, free, guide to levels, highlights, levels command, midtones, options button, Photographic, photoshop cs3, shadows, target colours, video tutorial
The levels dialogue box allows us to take control of the three automatic operations in auto levels, auto colour and auto contrast. Instead of just pushing a button and hoping for the best results, we can adjust black, grey and white points as well as control the percentage of pixels we want to ignore before finding the true base luminance for the given value. If that sounds confusing then this video's for you.
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Some people claim you should avoid clipping like nothing else in existence, and whilst that ideal has some merit - the reality is you'll no doubt be faced with the problem one day. Therefore it's time to look at some creative solutions and realise that sometimes the best way out of trouble is to take a different route home.
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brightness, channels, clipped highlights, clipped shadows, clipping, Commands / Tools, fade command, free, guide to levels, high key, highlights, histogram, levels command, low key, luminance, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, pixels, shadows, video tutorial
It's time to realise that those cleverly spoken words were actually a full-blown conversation between the pixels in our image and our ears, spoken by the soothing voice of the histogram. Now comes the time to understand terms such as contrast, clipping and other references used in the world of photography such as high and low key images.
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