Photoshop Digital Photo Palette Basics: 4 Basic Skills

In this tutorial, I'll introduce the use of four tools commonly used in digital photo tuning, which are levels, curves, hue/saturation, and optional color adjustment layers.

The original image was a very conspicuous barn next to my home, and my wife photographed the photo with vintage Nikon D100 years ago.

It was so vague that I never thought it would be an excellent art.

One day, when I was tidying up my photos, I decided to take a little surgery on the photo to revive it from the muddy color.

Unlike today's digital SLR, which can save raw formats for late-stage lossless adjustments, D100 can't do this, and it's not easy to get a print quality film.

My wife's early photography was so bad that she got this picture that was similar to a scrap film. But it doesn't matter, I'm going to make it a little bit more alive with a small adjustment.

Material:

Final Effect Diagram:

The first tool: adjust the levels of the color

Open the material picture and click the Create new Fill or adjust layer button below the layers panel to make a new level adjustment layer.

As shown in the figure:

The black part of the graph is the histogram, which in turn represents the dark part of the image, the midtones, the three of the light.

An ideal histogram should be from the dark part to the high light three parts are covered with pixel information.

The histogram shown above, the leftmost dark information is scarce, the most right of the high light information is also scarce, most of the pixels concentrated in the middle of the dark part of the contrast is very small, so the whole film is gray.

Below we will change it. Pull the arrows in the left and right ends to the center and pull them to the corresponding x-axis coordinates with pixel information.

As shown in the figure:

Effect Chart:

Second tool: Adjusting curves

Click the "Create new fill or adjust Layer" button below the Layers palette to create a new "curve" adjustment layer. As shown in the figure:

Classification:

• PS Palette Tutorial