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How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

Lesson 6 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

Lesson 6 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

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6. How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

Lessons

Class Trailer

Getting Started

1

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

02:36
2

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

01:20

Layers

3

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:56
4

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

07:37
5

Layers - Quiz

Color & Adjustment Layers

6

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

04:03
7

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

03:28
8

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

02:52
9

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
10

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

04:35
11

How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop

10:57
12

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Shapes

13

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

04:10
14

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

12:01
15

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

06:39
16

Shapes - Quiz

Text

17

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:09
18

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
19

How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop

13:04
20

Text - Quiz

Layer Styles

21

How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop

08:17
22

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

02:19
23

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

03:02
24

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

06:35
25

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

04:29

Cropping

26

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:40
27

How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

06:11
28

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

01:55

Selections & Masking

29

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

06:20
30

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

09:35
31

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

10:11
32

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

00:37
33

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:01
34

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:47
35

Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop

08:57
36

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

04:36
37

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

03:18
38

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

16:24
39

Class Project - Selecting Hair

01:21
40

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:41
41

How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC

13:15
42

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

01:41
43

Selection & Masking - Quiz

Filters

44

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

04:14
45

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

03:12
46

Class Project – Oil Painting

00:31
47

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

06:42
48

Class exercise - Halftone

00:23
49

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:28
50

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

03:31
51

Filters - Quiz

Smart Objects

52

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:03

Transform & Distort

53

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

07:49
54

How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop

03:13
55

Class Project - Peeling Sky

00:49
56

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

05:44
57

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

09:17
58

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

00:52

Retouching

59

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

06:56
60

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

02:38
61

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

00:53
62

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

05:22
63

Class Project - Retouching

00:47
64

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

06:46
65

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:33
66

Retouching

Blending Modes

67

How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop

04:15
68

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

07:10
69

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

15:14
70

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

02:15

Visual Styles

71

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

05:43
72

Class Project - Duotones

00:20
73

How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop

06:14
74

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect

00:36
75

How to Create a Vintage Instagram Matte Photo in Photoshop

08:40
76

Class Project - Vintage Matte Photo

00:49
77

How to Create the Paper Cut Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC

12:07
78

Class Project - Paper Cut Effect

00:31

Artboards

79

How to Use an Artboard in Adobe Photoshop CC

20:14

Color Modes & Resolution

80

What is the Difference Between RGB and CMYK in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:12
81

How do you Change the Resolution to 300dpi in Photoshop CC

10:38
82

Color Modes & Resulotion - Quiz

Brushes

83

Basic Introduction to Using a Wacom Tablet with Photoshop

12:22
84

How to Create Splatter Paint Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:11
85

77. Class Project - Ink Splats

00:54
86

How to Create Dripping Paint Ink Effect in Photoshop

06:46
87

Class Project - Dripping Paint Brush

00:55
88

How to Create Smoke with an Image Inside it using Photoshop CC

05:50
89

Class Project - Smoke Effect

01:03

Shadows

90

How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop

05:26
91

How to Cast a Realistic Shadow on the Ground in Photoshop

07:16
92

Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop

03:33

Export

93

How to Export Images from Photoshop for Print Web & Social Media

10:18

What Next

94

What Next after your Photoshop Essentials Class

01:15

Final Quiz

95

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

Hi there in this video, we're going to look at something called levels. It's the thing I do the most in Photoshop, I open up an image and I sharpen up the blacks and the whites ready city. Here's another example, looks good and then bam looks better. What we're doing is making the blacks and the white super strong using something called levels. Let's go and do it now in Photoshop. Alright, let's get started. So from your exercise files, go to file open and we're working in our exercise files and we're going to be using 02 color. So double click to go inside there. Inside of here we're gonna open up levels. 01 click open. Alright. The first thing is we're going to find this adjustments panel. Okay, so this is where we find a lot of the adjustments we're going to do in this color section. If you can't find it, go up to window and come down until you find adjustments and it should have a little techniques to it. Cool. And if you hover above them all, you can kind of see, I can't point to ...

it as well but you can see the name appears up here, watch Okay, it's the one you're looking for his levels. It's this kind of history Graham looking bar chart type thing, click on him once. Cool. And what ends up happening is nothing except to know that we've got this little new layer that we'll talk about in a little bit and this big ugly thing opens up. Okay, now this thing is simpler than it looks okay because let me show you the technique here, basically this is all the color information in our document and you'll notice down the bottom here, there's a black little pointer, there's a kind of a gray one and a white one. Basically what it's showing is is that there's no really white information and no really black information. There's a chunk of other stuff, there's quite a lot of light gray you can kind of see and here's a lot of light gray and even then that doesn't really matter, basically, what you want to do is grab the dark guy and drag him to the right, click, hold, drag him how far just keep an eye on my image over here. You see, the further I drag him, the darker it gets, what we want to do is basically drag him to the kind of first hump. Okay, so halfway up the first little hump here and you'll notice that if I turn my preview on and off. Okay, so my liver's layer here to the eyeball on and off. It just really sharpens up the shadows or the dark parts. Same with the other side, grab the white dragon to the left and how far do you drag it basically? Just halfway up the first hump or at least until you feel like it's looking good. Okay, there's no like absolute science here. It really depends on your image, but that's a really good place to start, drag the both ends in until the halfway up the hump and often it'll fix your image. There's no specific way to drag it. It it just depends on your image so I can drag it to the left and it lightens it up and drag it to the right and it darkens it up. So it really depends where you want it to be. I'm just dragging it back and forth looking at the image until I find something that I like, remember turn the eye on and off. Have I made it better? Have I made it worse? Okay, it's better. It's pretty oversaturated is pretty sharp and that my friends is how levels work and it is the thing I do most often when I open up an image, especially if it's something I've taken myself and it's a way to kind of really get the rich blacks and the pure whites and what Photoshop has done is that it's put it on a layer that I can turn on and off. So later on I can come back to this and either make adjustments or just turn it off and go back to the original. It's very quick. It's very easy what you're going to do now is a little exercise, go to file open and there's one of them called levels to Now, what I've done throughout this course is that if there's ones that I've taken from a website called Sunsplash. Sunsplash is a cool website for commercial use images that you don't have to pay for. Okay. The only thing that they require is that you leave the artist's name and where it came from. So that's what I'm doing. So, this one here came from a paid stock library site. They don't require, I paid to use it. This one here I didn't pay for, but Matthew Hambleton and his amazing photography just needs to be credited here anyway, so open up levels to click open, go through the same process here, go to your adjustments panel. Find levels, drag the hills in from both sides, the center slider, try left and right, depending on what you're looking for, and that will give you some practice with the most common thing to do in Photoshop, in my opinion. And in my current opinion it is time to get on to the next video. Alright, see you over there.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Exercise Files
Completed Files Part 2
Completed Files Part 1

Ratings and Reviews

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Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals is very useful for a photo editor. I learned very important tricks from this course.

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