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Reading the histogram

Reading the histogram - Photos for OS X Tutorial

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Reading the histogram

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- The histogram is a display inside of your computer that helps you really understand the overall exposure information within a photo. It can also help you detect if there's a color balance issue if you learn how to look at the different channels. Let me show you how this works. I'm going to switch to the album here called Croatia. And let's open up this photo here of the flowers. When I double-click and go into edit mode, you'll notice that there's a histogram within some of the tools. Down here under levels, for example, I can see the information. I also suggest you go to the View menu and choose Show Histogram. This'll add an overall histogram at the top that you can open and close so you get a better idea. And you'll notice as you scroll it always stays visible, floating above the other tools. This makes it easy to judge. You read this from left to right. This is the darkest area, this is the brightest area.…

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