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Making precision adjustments curves

Making precision adjustments curves - Photos for OS X Tutorial

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Making precision adjustments curves

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- While Levels is quite powerful, it is easy to crush details or get unwanted shifts. Curves can be a little bit more natural but it's a bit more complicated of an interface. Let's go to our final image here in this album. It's a raw file of the desert, and double click to open it. Now, go to the edit menu. You'll find Curves near the bottom. Now, by default, the lower left corner is the shadow and the right edge is the highlights. Right now the shadows are marked and pulled down to the dark areas and the highlights are at the top. We can click to add additional control points and you'll see that this lets us make a change. For example, opening up the mid tones or pulling them down. Let's rest that. You also have the ability here to use eyedroppers if you want to sample. So I could choose that this area right here should be treated as pure black. And I could find another area and treat that as pure white. And then…

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