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Managing control points

Managing control points - HDR Efex Pro Tutorial

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Managing control points

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Because control points in HDR Efex Pro allow you to focus adjustments on specific areas of an image, there's a good chance that you'll want to apply multiple control points throughout the image. And as you continue adding more control points, you might want to take a look at some of the options for organizing those control points. Let's take a look at what's available to us. I'll start off by adding a control point for the sky, for example, I can adjust the overall size of that control point and then fine-tune the settings for the image. Perhaps I'll enhance contrast in the sky and increase saturation just a little bit. The idea is that we're able to apply a specific adjustment there and then go to a different area of the image, choosing to add a control point for example, for the grasses down below. I'll go ahead and adjust the size for this control point, and perhaps increase Saturation for this portion of the image, and adjust the overall structure so that we can get a little bit…

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