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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brightness, channels, Commands / Tools, fade command, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, levels command, luminance, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, video tutorial
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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auto colour, auto contrast, auto levels, brightness, Commands / Tools, fade command, free, guide to levels, highlights, levels command, luminance, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, shadows, video tutorial
Many commands in Photoshop come complete with an auto button, and not to be outclassed - the levels command comes with 3 of them! The interesting thing here is that, as far as one-click solutions go, they're actually very good at what they set out to do. Join me as we look at how they work and how effective they can be.
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banding, colour, distortion, fade command, focus, free, guide to sharpening, lab colour mode, luminosity, noise, Photographic, photoshop cs2, sharpen, video tutorial
In this free video tutorial we'll look at how to reduce colour banding, distortion and noise during the sharpening process. To achieve this we've got two options, either use a flat sharpening filter in the RGB colour mode followed by the mysterious fade command or sharpening the lightness channel in Lab. Both techniques are heading in the same direction, so feel free to let me know how they work out for you?
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