All language subtitles for 05 How to fix an image using levels in Photoshop CC.en

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at something called levels.

It's the thing like doing the most in Photoshop.

I open up an image and I sharpen up the blacks and the whites [inaudible].

Here's another example, looks good and then bam, and looks better.

What we're doing is making the blacks and the whites

super-strong using something called Levels.

Let's go and do it now in Photoshop.

Let's get started.

So from your exercise files, go to file,

open and we're working in our exercise files and we're going to be using 02 Color.

So double click to go inside there.

Inside of here we're going to open up levels 01. Click open.

So first thing is we're going to find this adjustments panel.

So this is where we find a lot of

the adjustments we're going to do it in this color section.

If you can't find it, go to Window and come down until

you find adjustments and it should have a little techniques to it.

Good. If you hover above them all,

you can see I can't point to it as well,

but you can see the name appears up here, watch,

the one you're looking for as levels,

it's this histogram looking bar chart type thing.

Click on him once. Cool. What ends up happening is nothing,

except to know that we've got this little new layer

that we'll talk about in a little bit and this big ugly thing opens up.

Now this thing is simpler than it looks okay,

because let me show you the technique here.

Basically, this is all the color information in

our document and you'll notice down the bottom here there's a black little pointer,

there's a a gray one and a white one.

Basically, what it's showing is,

is that there's no really white information and no really black information.

There's a chunk of other stuff.

There's quite a lot of light gray you can see and here's a lot of light gray,

and even that doesn't really matter,

basically what you want to do is grab

the dark guy and drag them to the right. Click hold, drag them.

How far? Just keep an eye on my image over here you see the further,

I drag him the darker it gets.

What we want to do is basically drag him to the first hump.

So halfway up the first little hump here,

and you'll notice that if I turn my preview on and off, okay,

so my levers lay here,

so I go on and off,

it just really sharpens up the shadows with the dark parts.

Same with the other side, grab the white,

drag it to the left and how far do you drag it?

Basically just halfway up the first hump

or at least until you feel like it's looking good.

There's no like absolute science here really depends on your image,

but that's the really good places stopped drag the both ins in

until the halfway up the hump and often it'll fix your image.

There's no specific way to drag it.

It just depends on your image.

So I can drag it to the left and it lightens it

up and drag it to the right and it darkens up.

So really depends we want it to be,

I'm just dragging it back and forth looking at

my image until I find something that I like.

Remember to turn it on and off.

Have I made it better, have I made it worse? It's better.

It's pretty over saturated is pretty sharp and that my friends is how levels work.

And it is the thing I do most often when I open up an image,

especially if it's something I've taken myself and it's a way

to really get the rich blacks and the pure whites,

and what Photoshop has done is that it's put it on a layer that I can turn on and off.

So later on I can come back to this and either make adjustments.

It will just turn it off and go back to the original.

It's very quick, it's very easy what you're going to do now as a little exercise,

go to file, got to open and is one of the cool levels too.

Now what I've done throughout this course is that

if there's ones that I've taken from a website called unsplash.

Unsplash is a cool website for commercial use images that you don't have to pay for.

The only thing that they require is that you leave

the artist's name and where it came from, so that's what I'm doing.

So this one here came from a paid stock Library site.

They don't require that I paid for use it.

This one he I didn't pay for it but Matthew Hamilton

and his amazing photography just needs to be created it here.

Anyway. So open up levels to click open,

go through the same process here,

go to your adjustments panel,

find levels, drag the hills in from both sides.

The center slide it, try left and right

depending on what you're looking for and that will give you

some practice with the most common thing to do in Photoshop, in my opinion.

In my current opinion,

it is time to get on to the next video. See you over there.