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Levels and Curves adjustments

Levels and Curves adjustments - HDR Efex Pro Tutorial

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Levels and Curves adjustments

With HDR imaging, you do tend to be very focused on tonal adjustments for the photo. So you'll probably spend a fair amount of time fine-tuning the settings for tone compression, as well as tonality. But you can also take things a little bit further with some finishing touches in the way of tonal adjustments. And those are specifically the levels and curves adjustments. Now, you may be familiar with levels and curves in Photoshop as individual adjustments. In HDR Efex Pro, they're actually blended into a single adjustment. It's found in the Finishing section of the right panel. So I'll click on the header for finishing, in order to expand the available controls there. And then I'll click on the triangle to the left of the levels and curves label, in order to expand the adjustments there. We can work with a preset for levels and curves just by clicking the pop up to the right of that label. You'll see that we have a neutral adjustment, several adjustments for film with various exposure…

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