Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

228 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 15.12 The image before editing. Understanding input versus output is ...

CHAPTER 15 THE IMPORTANCE OF LEVELS AND CURVES 229 Fortunately with Preview checked, you can see the effects on the image as the ...

FIGURE 15.16 Use the cursor to sample brightness values in the image. 230 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY With s ...

CHAPTER 15 THE IMPORTANCE OF LEVELS AND CURVES 231 The steepness of the curve controls the contrast of the image. A steep curve ...

Follow these steps to edit an image with a Curves adjustment layer: Use an adjustment layer to make your changes. Select Layer, ...

CHAPTER 15 THE IMPORTANCE OF LEVELS AND CURVES 233 The Absolute Minimum Even the most washed-out images contain valuable informa ...

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16 In this chapter Creating Image Layers Adjustment Layers: Preventing Color Banding and Data Loss Advanced Selection Technique ...

Layers enable image editors to perform the following tasks: ■ Reposition the image in each layer vertically and horizontally. Th ...

In Adobe Photoshop, layers are stored in the Layers palette. To see the Layers palette, choose Window, Show Layers. The order of ...

Click on the Type tool and then click the cursor somewhere in the window. When you use the type tool to place text in the image ...

CHAPTER 16 THE IMPORTANCE OF LAYERS AND MASKS 239 The Layer Style dialog box in Photoshop includes many effects. The General Ble ...

Matching color balance and saturation is important to making realistic collages. In the preceding image, one layer has a cyan-bl ...

CHAPTER 16 THE IMPORTANCE OF LAYERS AND MASKS 241 ■ Layer, Merge Visiblemerges all the visible layers (those with their eye icon ...

242 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Keep file size in mind while you work. If you are pasting a large number of ...

CHAPTER 16 THE IMPORTANCE OF LAYERS AND MASKS 243 FIGURE 16.6 Banding occurs when you edit colors without adjustment layers. Adj ...

Group with Previous arrow. Layer modifies layer below it. 244 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 16.7 An adj ...

CHAPTER 16 THE IMPORTANCE OF LAYERS AND MASKS 245 FIGURE 16.8 Open all the images and compare them. Examine each component to se ...

246 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 16.9 Changing your image size using the Image Size dialog box. Select ...

Copy the Selection and Paste It into the Background Image Use the Move tool (in the main Tool palette) to position the new image ...