10. Color Correction and Enhancement
The primary purpose of Photoshop is to act as a digital darkroom, where images can be corrected, enhanced, and refined. How do you know an image needs touch-up? You can pretty much assume every image can ...
Approach to Color Correction
New users often have a hard time when color correcting or enhancing images. They generally lose sight of the goal: making the image look better and believable. Many users go "too far" in their quest to fix im...
Primary Image Adjustments
While there are several image adjustments that Photoshop offers, only a few are used most often. Commands such as Levels and Curves are used by professionals to achieve outstanding results. These professional imaging tech...
Useful Image Adjustments
While a Levels or Curves command can usually get the color correction job done, there are often special problems that require special commands. These other commands have special purposes and should generally be reserved fo...
Not-So-Useful Image Adjustments
Several image adjustments can be run on your image that can cause more problems than they solve. Others (like Variations) are far less efficient than more professional alternatives. You are welcome to explore these ...
