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Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks

Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks - Photoshop Tutorial

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Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to make use of the other basic controls. Namely highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks. Here I am once again inside Bridge, and I'm going to go ahead and select this image, Undeveloped cliffs.dng. And then I'll right click on it and choose open in Camera Raw, in order to open the Camera Raw plugin inside Bridge. Now this is a photograph of the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland. It could not be more breathtaking. Meanwhile this image could not be more drab. Now I'm going to go ahead and skip the temperature and tint values, because they're just fine, but I'll lay down a few of the familiar controls in advance here. I'll go ahead and take the exposure down to negative 80, and then I'm going to crank the contrast value up to 90, which is just 10 shy of its maximum of 100. And now, I'll drop down to the vibrance value, and I'll dial it up to 75. And I'll take the saturation value up to 30. And we end up with a much better photograph, but we're…

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