From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Custom Brightness/Contrast

Custom Brightness/Contrast - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Custom Brightness/Contrast

- [Narrator] In this movie I'll show you how to assign a custom application of Brightness Contrast as a static adjustment so that you're permanently modifying each and every pixel inside the image. And then in a next movie I'll show you how to do the same thing using a dynamic adjustment layer. And over the course of the two movies, we'll take these two images of hawksbill turtles, both of which look pretty awful right now, and we'll make them look absolutely great. All right, I'm going to start things off inside this too-dark image by first insuring that I have a pixel-based layer selected, which I do, because after all, it's a static background which is always made of pixels inside Photoshop. Then I'll go up to the Image menu, choose Adjustments, and then choose Brightness Contrast to bring up the Brightness Contrast dialog box. And then you presumably want to go ahead and start by clicking on the Auto button to see what Photoshop comes up with all by itself. Which is not half bad…

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