Adobe Photoshop for Beginners
Course 2: Color and Light: What’s A Curve? What Are Levels?
By Harrison Kuykendall , Digital Artist
Joined February 2020
Joined February 2020
About the video: What’s A Curve? What Are Levels?
Overview
“When I bring an image into photoshop, the first thing I will adjust is the exposure. Exposure can be easily explained as the amount of light collected by your camera that determines how light or dark an image will appear. Photoshop gives us a number of tools to enhance an image's resolution, and in this unit, we will go over the two most effective tools, levels, and curves.”
In this video lesson Harrison Kuykendall addresses the topic: What’s A Curve? What Are Levels?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2: Color and Light. Create highlights and shadows with Burn and Dodge.
Partial transcription of the video
“When I bring an image into Photoshop, The first thing I'll change is the exposure. Exposure can be easily explained as the amount of light let into your camera when you take a photograph. In this unit, we'll learn various methods of changing the exposure in your image, such as curves, and levels. Let me show you guys how. You're going to start by opening up this black and white portrait that I have. You'll notice that it's looking a bit dark We're sort of losing. information here in his face. So I think we want to maybe just increase brightness overall. and then add a bit of contrast. So a ...”
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Course summary for: Course 2: Color and Light
Harrison Kuykendall
By Harrison Kuykendall
Harrison Kuykendall is a digital artist living in New York City who specializes in creative retouching and design using Adobe Photoshop. He is the owner and founder of HE–Studios, a Brooklyn based post-production studio whose client list includes Target, Stella Artois, Lady Gaga’s Haus Labs, Aveeno, Champion, and Diane von Furstenberg.
Harrison and his studio are focused on retouching stills and creating animations for large scale global advertising campaigns that can be seen on billboards and screens around the world. When he’s not experimenting in Photoshop or the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite, you can find him relaxing with his three cats or creating music for his synthpop band BHuman.
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