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Customizing a Levels adjustment

Customizing a Levels adjustment - Photoshop Tutorial

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Customizing a Levels adjustment

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to customize your Levels adjustment for even better results. But first, I'd like to refresh your memory on the Histogram. We first saw it back in chapter seven of the Fundamentals course, and it is literally a bar graph showing the number of pixels that are set to each one of the 256 Luminance Levels per channel. So once again, these are the Levels. These bars right here, are the Levels for which the Levels function is named. And so as you may recall, black is located on a left, white is located on a right, and the other 244 Luminance Levels in between become progressively brighter, as we move from left to right inside the graph. So where this specific graph is concerned, we don't have that many Shadows. We've got a bunch of dark Midtones. We have some light Midtones as well. And then finally, we have a ton of Highlights. But no pixel is quite black, so we have a little bit of a gap here. And no pixel is quite white. And so the Level…

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