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Compare and contrast pages
  • LIGHT… what does each settling do with examples, before and afters
  • COLOR
  • EFFECTS
  • DETAIL


 
What do each of the adjustments actually do? Illustrate with 11 point grayscale or colour chart…
 
Exposure
 
Contrast: which bits does it most affect
 
Highlights: increases lightness of shadows and increases contrast generally in that region?
Shadows:
 
Whites: use alt tool to see exactly when you start to loose detail (clipping in the trade)
Blacks:
 
Tone curve: how this differs from highlight/ shadows/ whites and blacks…
⁃          overall adjustment, can change the middle part of the curve better
 
 
Clarity: very clever, adjusts contrast at a local level between adjacent areas of contrast only, useful for broad improvements in details - makes photos pop
Dehaze: takes out white haze and increases saturation in areas high on the curve? leave the bottom half of the curve alone?
 
 
 
Saturation: use colour wheels… saturation is grey at 0 and full colour at top end
Luminance: use colour wheel… luminance if black at 0 and white at top end
Vibrance: only increases saturation in more muted colours and preserves skin tones…
 
 
Colour sliders…
 
Split toning: selective colour adjustment to highlights and shadows - very effective if used with care, avoid full saturation, use colours at opposite ends of colour wheel (I am not a technical expert but adjust to what suits you…)
 
Sharpening - applied edge contrast at a very local level (can see where it is going to work with mask) - make out most of most images - just want to sharpen the hardest edges… sharpening soft edges gives rise to blotches…
Noise reduction….
 
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Clarity and de haze similarities and differences...
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