The Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital photographers part 19 is full-color, graphically rich, and contains project-based examples of every key step in the digital photography process. Integrating all the newest features of Photoshop CS5 into the book’s workflow, Scott shows readers how to work with their images like a pro, from importing to organization to correction to output. In addition to fully updating the book for CS5, Scott has also added a brand new chapter, which lets readers in on his entire, personal post-processing workflow by incorporating his popular 7-Point System into this book | The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers Step Two Now move your cursor outside the Curves dialog and out over the part of your image you want to adjust. In our case we want to make the buildings and sky darker. Start by clicking-and-holding on the building in the foreground and you ll notice that your cursor turns into a hand with a two-headed arrow pointing up down. That tells you that dragging up down will make the adjustment. In our case we want this area darker so drag downward. As you do it knows exactly which part of the curve to adjust to darken that area. Step Three So now that we ve darkened the buildings and sky let s go make the white clouds brighter. Move your cursor over them but this time you re increasing the brightness so you d click-and-drag upward rather than downward . As you do this it knows exactly which part of the curve to adjust to affect that area if you look at the curve you can see a new point has been added on the top right of the curve that was added when you clicked-and-dragged on the clouds . Continued Color Correction Secrets Chapter 6 161 The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers Step Four Lastly now that we ve darkened the building let s darken the windows a bit by moving our cursor over a window and clicking-and-dragging downward to darken that area also note where it added a new curve point and how it adjusted that new point downward . This is so darn easy to do but as you can see it s also pretty darn powerful. Before After 162 Chapter 6 Color Correction Secrets The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers If you re shooting in a studio or on location whether you re shooting portraits or products there s a technique many pros use that can make the color-correction process so easy that you ll be able to train laboratory test rats to correct photos for you. The secret is this in the back of this book I included my version of a gray card and it s perforated so you can easily tear it out. By .
