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Putting the Histogram to use

Putting the Histogram to use - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Putting the Histogram to use

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at how you measure the success of your color adjustments using the histogram panel. So for starters, I'm going to go up to the window menu and choose histogram, in order to bring up the panel over here on the right-hand side of the screen. Now the thing is, I need to be able to see this histogram panel as I'm working inside the properties panel, but the second I bring up the properties panel by double-clicking on the thumbnail for an adjustment layer, that's going to automatically hide the histogram panel from view. So, here's what I suggest we do. Notice inside this little group here, we have both the histogram panel and the info panel. And to keep them on screen, I'm going to go ahead and grab that little scrubby thing at the top of the panel group, and I'm going to drag it and drop it in between the color panel at the top of the screen and the layers panel below it, and that way, the histogram panel will remain visible. Next, notice…

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