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Shadow levels after a conversion
You will sometimes come across advice saying that the output levels for the black point in an RGB image should be set to something like 20,20,20 (for the Red, Green, Blue RGB values).
The usual reason given for this is because anything darker than, say, a 20,20,20 shadow value will reproduce in print as a solid black. Just to add to the confusion, different numbers are suggested for the output levels: one person suggests using
10,10,10, while another advises you use 25,25,25. In all this you are probably left wondering how to set the Blacks slider in
Camera Raw, since you ...
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