Adobe 65045315 - Photoshop Elements Use Manual page 133

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10
Color and tonal correction
Before adjusting shadows and highlights (top) and after (bottom). Adjusting softens the face and reveals more detail behind sunglasses.
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"Remove a color cast automatically" on page 132
Adjust shadows and brightness using Levels
1 Do one of the following in the Edit workspace:
• Choose Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Levels.
• Choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels, or open an existing Levels adjustment layer.
2 Choose RGB from the Channel menu. When set to RGB, your adjustment affects all three (red, green, and blue)
channels. If you are working on a grayscale image, it will only have the gray channel.
3 Set the shadow and highlight values by dragging the black and white Input Levels sliders (the left and right sliders
directly under the histogram) to the edge of the first group of pixels on either end of the histogram. You can also
enter values directly into the first and third Input Levels text boxes.
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