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Using the histogram

Using the histogram - Lightroom Tutorial

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Using the histogram

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- [Instructor] Now it's time to dive in and do some final, last-minute tweaks and adjustments. We're going to start by exploring the histogram and how that works and how we can make sure our image is set exactly right for printing or displaying online. So I see here that my image is a little bit dark. I wasn't planning on it being this dark after I did all of these adjustments, but something's just not quite right with it. If I look here at my histogram, I see that most of the information is pushed into the blacks and the shadows region. Now this can be useful if your image really is dark or if you have a lot of dark trees or your subject is mostly black, but with this image we really need to bring out the bright, boldness of the sky. I can adjust the entire image by just dragging within the histogram panel, like this and pulling things back and forth. Or I can adjust it in the basics panel again. So let's kind of bring up the exposure. That seems a lot better. Now I think this is…

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