The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

14. MANAGING BLACKS AND WHITES IN AN IMAGE

NOW THAT YOU’VE adjusted exposure, contrast, highlights, and shadows, let’s move into the whites and blacks. This is somewhat controversial because a lot of individuals like to set their whites and blacks first. But with how well the four sliders at the very top work, I find that I use the Whites and Blacks sliders less and less. More often than not, I like using these sliders when I see that I have enough water across the bottle in the tonal range, but just need to tweak the file a little bit.

In Figure 14.1, you’ll notice that there’s a pretty good amount of range, but if you look at the histogram ( ...