Smart_Photography_-_January_2016_

LEARNING

Understanding Photography

This article, the Part 6 of the tutorial, explained how

to perform tonal and colour adjustments which are

essential for developing any image. You were also

introduced to Targeted Adjustments, which will allow

you to control a specific tone or colour. Lastly the topic

of soft proofing was described in detail.

CONCLUSION

Next month: Noise reduction. Sharpening and more!

Table 6-1 – Shortcuts

Shortcut What it does

Full stop key Next slider

Comma Previous slider

Double click on the

slider name

Resets the slider to default value

Alt + dragging Tone

group sliders

Displays clipped areas. Works with Highlights, Whites,

Exposure, Shadows and Blacks sliders.

Short cuts: Table 6-1 gives you some shortcuts to help you use the Develop

module efficiently.

All text diagrams and images © Ashok Kandimalla

in red colour (Picture 6-7↓4). These

are not going to print properly. So,

pick up the TAT Saturation tool

(Picture 6-7↓5), choose any point on

the highlighted area (say at a point

shown by arrow Picture 6-7↓4) and

drag the mouse down to reduce

saturation. You will notice that the

highlighted areas will gradually

reduce and finally get eliminated.

At this stage you can be sure that

whatever is appearing in the

Preview area of your monitor will

get printed. That is all to this! |SP

Picture 6-7: Soft Proofing Screen.

6-7↓1 Soft Proofing check box

6-7↓2 Destination (printer) Gamut Warning icon

6-7↓3 Printer Profile

6-7↓4 Highlighted area indicating out of gamut colors

6-7↓5 TAT for Saturation

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