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It seems to me that many experts look on Levels as the poor relation to Curves.
I find the Levels command very useful and easy to use, and it has often solved all my photo correction problems. Also, unlike Curves, Levels shows a histogram. However, so far as I can see, Levels is not listed in the index of the 352 page printed Photoshop CS User Guide, and if you manage to find the reference to the Levels Command, it only gets a 12 word description,
I have lots of books on Photoshop, and have studied Channel Chops, Photoshop Color Correction and Professional Photoshop very carefully, I think. But none of these books mention that if you ALT (Mac OPTION) CLICK on the white slider triangle while making adjustments in Levels you will see (if the Preview box is checked) those parts of the image that will be clipped. And the same with the black triangle.
There are also procedures outlined in the online help to calibrate the black, grey and white eyedroppers to suit your requirements for each image you work on..
John
I find the Levels command very useful and easy to use, and it has often solved all my photo correction problems. Also, unlike Curves, Levels shows a histogram. However, so far as I can see, Levels is not listed in the index of the 352 page printed Photoshop CS User Guide, and if you manage to find the reference to the Levels Command, it only gets a 12 word description,
I have lots of books on Photoshop, and have studied Channel Chops, Photoshop Color Correction and Professional Photoshop very carefully, I think. But none of these books mention that if you ALT (Mac OPTION) CLICK on the white slider triangle while making adjustments in Levels you will see (if the Preview box is checked) those parts of the image that will be clipped. And the same with the black triangle.
There are also procedures outlined in the online help to calibrate the black, grey and white eyedroppers to suit your requirements for each image you work on..
John
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