From the course: Cert Prep: Adobe Certified Associate - Photoshop (2019)

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Making adjustments

Making adjustments - Photoshop Tutorial

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Making adjustments

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- [Instructor] For the ACA exam, you should be familiar with some of the options in the Adjustments panel that you can use for color correction. And if I go to the Adjustments panel, you can see that there are lots of tools here. You can use them to target specific areas of an image for correction, without making a selection. And just to highlight some of the choices here, we have Brightness Contrast, Levels, Curves, Vibrance, Color Balance, Photo Filter, and Selective Color. And you should spend time experimenting with all of them. In our exercise file, we have an image of one guy in shorts and the rest in suits. And at first, this image looks good, like there might be no colors that need correcting. But one way you can tell for sure is to use the Color panel. So I'll go to the Color panel, go to its menu, and I'm going to choose HSB Sliders. Then I'll take the eyedropper tool, go to the Options bar and make sure this option is chosen, five by five average, so I'll sample a larger…

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