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Global tone

Global tone

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Global tone

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- Tone is possibly the most important word in your digital photography post-production vocabulary. When we speak of tone, we are referring to the brightness of a color or luminance level. A lighter toned red is a lighter, possibly brighter red, than a darker toned red. A weird thing about color is as you change tone you also change the brightness of it. In grayscale images we have lighter tones, we have darker tones. As photographers, we speak of tone as a quantity. It's substance that we push around in our images. We'll take midtones and brighten them up into highlights and lighter tones. Or we'll take midtones and darken them down into shadow tones. With the histogram display you can feel tone as a malleable substance. We're going to spend a lot of time in this course talking about tone correction, both in example and just in theory. And we're going to talk about global and local tone adjustments. Tone is where you start your image edits, you begin with cropping, anything else that…

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