Chapter 4. Optimizing Grayscale Images

Optimizing Grayscale Images
 

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

 
 --Akio Morita, founder of Sony

When you work with grayscale images, your adjustments and corrections are limited to only tonal adjustments—that is, changes to the brightness and contrast of the image. When you work with color images, you also have to worry about hue, saturation, and the other properties of color.

Photoshop provides several tools for making tonal adjustments, and we’ll look at all of them. You can use these tools for correcting and adjusting both grayscale and color images.

Brightness/Contrast ...

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