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Advanced post processing

Advanced post processing - Photoshop Tutorial

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Advanced post processing

- [Narrator] So for the final movie in this chapter we're going to talk about how to really polish off this image and make it great. So in previous movies, we already adjusted the exposure, the contrast, and the color of the image. Again, you can see how the image looked beforehand by pushing that backslash key on your keyboard. So that's going to show us how the image looked before our adjustments, and where we're starting now. So there's still a couple things about this image that I don't particularly like. I think the background could be a little bit darker, and I'm a little bit distracted by the sand surrounding the image. So those are the projects we're going to tackle right now. So the first tool we're going to use to help darken up this background here above the animal is we're going to use a gradient filter. So just here at the top underneath the histogram we're going to click on the gradient filter tool. So this is going to bring up some sliders here, and it'll generally go…

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