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Optimizing image color

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Optimizing image color

- Once exposure is locked down, we can go after color. It's important to adjust exposure first, because changing exposure affects color. But now we can go ahead and dial in the right intensity of things like saturation or vibrancy. Taking a look at the image, we wanna adjust the overall color. You'll notice at the top you have the ability for profiles. By default, Adobe Color is selected. But depending upon the camera, you might see others. For example, if I choose one of these base images here, and I'll go back to one of the regular brackets, you'll see that it might read in other options. Now, this is gonna be based upon the camera itself and if it can detect the model or other features. Let's continue to work here with the HDR image. I'm gonna switch this to a Landscape-type preset, and you see that it adjusts the overall color. The Landscape preset is a good preset for bringing out details of color in a landscape photo. You'll also find others for things like portraiture, a…

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