From the course: Enhancing Your Images with Photos for macOS

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

A solution for exposure and tonality

A solution for exposure and tonality - Photos for OS X Tutorial

From the course: Enhancing Your Images with Photos for macOS

Start my 1-month free trial

A solution for exposure and tonality

“

- So, how'd you do? I'm hoping your image looks a lot better. Now let me show you the techniques that I did and hopefully you got results that made your image look a bit more like this. One of the first things I did on this image is remove the distracting object from the side. Somebody was standing at the edge of the frame and they really weren't part of the picture. Let's pull this in a little bit and I like that, and I'm going to crop to a 16-by-9 aspect ratio and that looks good. Now let's go to the adjust section and I'll click the Auto button for light so it analyzes the photo, as well as attempt an auto-curve. That helped quite a bit. Now let's add some control points here on the different zones. Good. I want to bring down the sun a little bit. Like so. And it helps on the sky. And lift a little bit more in the desert. Good. Then definition to really bring out the shadows and the dynamic range. You…

Contents