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Improving contrast with Auto Curves

Improving contrast with Auto Curves - Photoshop Tutorial

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Improving contrast with Auto Curves

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- Most people think of a curves adjustment layer as being used for contrast. And built in, are several recipes that you can try out, both presets and auto methods that are worth looking at. Lemme show you. Now, the same process you learned for fixing color contrast issues also works for general contrast issue. Just go to adjustment, and click on the curve adjustment. Now hold on the option or alt key, and click on the word auto. This is gonna bring up a new dialogue, and you'll see some great choices here. One of the ones that I like is the Enhance Brightness and Contrast. This goes through and creates a very custom curve, and really finds what's needed to get clean image with rich blacks and bright whites. Now, you can also try the Find Dark and Light Color option, and this isn't quite as strong, but as you see here, it goes through and finds a pure black and a pure white. And so, that option is a bit more subtle, but what it does is, restores the black point and restores the white…

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