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Making precision adjustments with levels

Making precision adjustments with levels - Photos for OS X Tutorial

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Making precision adjustments with levels

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- Now you might feel pretty comfortable when it comes to tone, after looking at all of the sliders to date. But there's another tool that's quite useful. And you might miss it. It's called levels, and it really allows you to make precise adjustments to the image. Let me show you how powerful it is. Let's go back to grid view, and we're going to select this image here. It's a raw file, so we'll have some flexibility. Let's go ahead, and we'll choose to work with this. I'll revert to the original for a moment. And you see it's quite washed out. Now, let's click the edit button, and take a look at levels. You'll find it near the bottom, and you can open it up. Here, I see the histogram is repeated, and things are really clumped in. What we have are sliders for different areas. The midtone, the shadows, and highlights, and the black point and white point. Here's the black point, here's the white point. Highlights…

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