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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

by Lesa Snider
August 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
989 pages
34h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Quick Fixer-Uppers

Before you dive into making color and lighting adjustments manually, it’s worth seeing whether Photoshop can fix this stuff automatically. The program has lots of auto fixer-uppers, which have improved quite a bit in recent years.

For example, Adobe changed the mathematical voodoo that Photoshop uses when you apply the Auto Color adjustment, and when you click the Auto button in a Levels, Curves, or Brightness & Contrast adjustment (all discussed in this chapter). And instead of the old Enhance Per Channel Contrast method—wherein Photoshop adjusted the red, green, and blue channels individually so that the highlights got a little lighter and the shadows got a little darker whether they needed it or not—Photoshop now uses the “Enhance Brightness and Contrast” method, which analyzes your image and then adjusts the brightness and contrast accordingly. Bottom line: You no longer have to change the way these automatic tools work in order to get good results. Hip hip hooray!

Note

While you may get satisfactory results using combinations of the following adjustments, they’re nothing compared to what you can do if you master Levels and Curves (both covered later in this chapter). In other words, use the methods in this section only while you’re learning or as quick-and-dirty fixes.

Fixing Color

If your image looks flat (like it has no contrast) or has a noticeable color cast, give the following methods a spin:

  • Auto Color. If your image has a color cast (everything looks a little ...

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