As you start to gain more experience, you'll be able to use it more effectively. At this stage, the most important thing is to practice making different adjustments. If you've never adjusted levels before, this tool may feel a little unintuitive at first. You can see an example of this in the images below. For instance, if you have a particularly dark-or underexposed-image, you might want to make the midtones and highlights brighter while keeping the shadows relatively dark. There are many reasons to use a levels adjustment. And while you could use the brightness and contrast tools for a similar type of adjustment, they're much less powerful than levels. When you adjust levels, you're adjusting these different tones. Shadows are the darkest parts of the image, highlights are the brightest parts, and midtones are everything in between. And because you can continue to tweak adjustment layers as you work, it's easy to try out different effects and get the image to look exactly the way you want.Įvery image has a mix of shadows, highlights, and midtones. As we discussed in the previous lesson, adjustment layers are a type of nondestructive editing because they don't actually change anything about the original image. We'll be using adjustment layers throughout this lesson to correct images.
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