Color & Value

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If you want to start a lengthy discussion, maybe even a few arguments, strike up a conversation about color with photographers. Second only to the fervor over equipment, color inspires nearly religious devotion to certain tools and methods.

Where the “Dodge & Burn” chapter focused on contrast, this group of techniques deals with brightness and color as individual elements, as well as the relationship between gray and color.

Color Grading

Because digital images are all about color, it makes sense that we want to master various ways to control color to different extents. You’ve already seen how to make some global and local tonal ...

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