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Photofinishing with Photoshop: Curves Adjustment Layer - Part 1

By John Watts

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
Published
2016
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About this lesson

Using a Mt. Whitney landscape as his example, John Watts explains how the Curves Adjustment Layer reads dark and light pixels on its graph and walks through adding anchor points at the quarter, mid, and three-quarter tones for precise contrast and color control.