Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration Tutorials
Basics / Brightness/Contrast
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Let us take a look at what not to do first, so that as we move through the tutorial you will not be tempted to do things that are wrong and unacceptable. Brightness and contrast controls are verboten by this instructor, okay? So let us take a look at those and, nothing fancy, just a couple of slider controls, and you go up and that looks bad, you go down that looks equally bad, and this is not the thing to do. I mean you do not get anywhere near the flexibility, you don't get anywhere near the quality result that we are all looking for. You may look like right now and think that looks pretty good, but trust me it is not. And let me explain to you technically why that is, because when you are moving the contrast slider, what is happening is that above a certain threshold on the tonal range spectrum, the contrast control is lightening all pixels equally. Below a certain threshold in the darker areas of the tonal spectrum, it is darkening all pixels, exactly the same. There is no gradual, there is no blending, there is no finesse being brought to bear when you are making those adjustments. Same thing for the brightness control and I do not mean it goes above or below a certain threshold, it does exactly the same thing to every single pixel, it brightens equally and it darkens equally, and that just does not give you the flexibility to give you the excellent result that you can get with Photoshop. I mean if that is all you wanted to use, you can use Photoshop LE, you could use any other photo correction program for fifty dollars, seventy-five dollars down at any office supply place and buy those cheap photo manipulation programs with the contrast and a brightness controls on them and it will do you just as good, so why did you spend the money for Photoshop? Do not use the brightness and contrast controls, okay? We will show you now more creative ways to get contrast out of your images with a much much better result than what these brightness and contrast control can yield.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration |
| Author: | Phil Hawkins |
| SKU: | 33473 |
| ISBN: | 1932072705 |
| Release Date: | 2004-01-27 |
| Duration: | 4.5 hrs / 77 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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