Article · Apogee Photo Magazine
Photofinishing with Photoshop: Curves Adjustment Layer - Part 1
By John Watts
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2016
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.
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