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We are going to use the levels command to correct this image to give it a little bit more contrast. But instead of just going to the image menu and choosing adjustments and levels we're going to do a non destructive version of this by going to our layers, let me pull this out and we are going to add an adjustment layer. So we are gonna click this icon right here and we are gonna choose levels from here instead. What this will allow us to do is make the levels change and we can always come back and fix it and we can even hide it if we are not happy with it. So what I am going to do is I'm going to use the white and the black sliders here to change this image, but I'm gonna cancel this for now because I want to show you a trick here. I am gonna go to the image menu and I'm going to choose adjustments and I'm gonna to choose threshold. Whenever you go to threshold you are able to move this slider all the way left and all the way right and what you can do is take your time and see what parts of the image are gonna be the brightest and the darkest. So I'm gonna go right about here and I'm going to shift click my mouse right about in here and that's going to give me a point of reference that's gonna stay in this image. Likewise I'm gonna go all the way to the right but I'm not gonna go too far, you want to make sure that you don't go too far. You want to try to find a nice midtonish area. So I'm gonna go to the skin here and I'm gonna shift click once again right in this area and as you see here I have uh one point and I have two points and the numbers are there to tell you which ones are first and second. I'm gonna click ok and now I'm going to undo this command and I'm going to now go back to my image here. And I'm gonna go to my adjustment layer and my points are still here. So this time I can take the black eye dropper and of course I know that this is the area so I'm going to click right in there. And then uh levels are adjusted for me and I'm gonna grab the white one and I'm gonna click right here in his nose and once again the levels are adjusted for me. Now I can look at the image and I can see it looks much, much better, have a nice set of contrast in here and I can also use my gamma slider to you know adjust the image as I see fit here. To bring back some of the detail or to make a little but more contrast. Of course it depends on the feel you're going for so I'm going to make this a little bit moody. I'm gonna make it a lot bit dark, a little sinister, now I'll click OK now as I said before it's an adjustment layer so I will have to stay with this if I don't like it. I can go ahead and hide it at anytime and unlike using the regular um command it's non destructive because like I said before I can hide and I can also adjust it by double clicking on the command, opening up the window and check it out my points are still here so I can always play with these settings If I am happy with these settings by the way and I want to apply them to other images I can save these settings and I'll go ahead and call it sinister and let's see where it goes. It lives in the documents folder so I'm gonna go ahead and click save and that's where mine is gonna be at. I'll click OK and I'm gonna open up a different image this time. Let's see here I will go to let's see here I'll go to my VTC folder, I'll go to Photoshop CS3, my stock photography and I'll choose any image at random, alright? I'm gonna open this up and I'm gonna go to my adjustment layer and I'm going to load the settings that I just saved. So let's see here, where is it, it's called sinister, here it is, I'll double click on that and that has been applied to this image for me. So as you see here you can use levels to change the way your images looks as far as changing the distribution pixels between midtones, highlights and shadows as well as saving it as an adjustment layer so you can put it in other images. And once again it's non destructive.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |