文档介绍：Digital Nature Photography and Adobe Photoshop
Original image Final adjusted image using the color and tonal correction workflow
Figure The original image and the final image with the Exposure, Shadow/Highlights, Levels, Curves, Color Balance, and Hue/Saturation adjustments
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Chapter 11 Making Tonal and Color Corrections to Nature Photos
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Chapter 11 Making Tonal and Color Corrections to Nature Photos
Summary
Adjusting color and tonal values of an image is a talent you can only acquire with practice. Using a consistent
and rigid workflow, you’ll master this most important part of your overall image processing. Following is a
quick review of the steps to making color and tonal adjustments to your nature images:
1. Open an image in Photoshop.
2. Save the image as a .PSD file. Make sure you save your image to a Working Images folder.
3. Duplicate the background layer.
4. Evaluate the image and formulate a plan of attack.
5. If needed, correct the exposure and shadows.
6. Create a Levels adjustment layer.
7. Create a Curves adjustment layer.
8. If needed, create a Color Balance adjustment layer.
9. Create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.
10. Save your .PSD file to your Working Images folder.
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Editing Nature Photos
Digital Nature Photography and Adobe Photoshop
fter running your images through overall color and tonal corrections, you’ll want to continue finishing
Aoff your nature photos by adding edits. I’ve always mended that everything you do in Photoshop
be part of a workflow, and editing nature photos isn’t any different. You still need to stick to a rigid
process to help you obtain consistent quality results.
The image-editing workflow is very much like the overall-correction workflow I described earlier. Image edits
are made in a step-by-step sequence of best practices. Unlike the procedure for overall color and tonal cor-
rections, h